#4716 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
River Nerite
🇳🇱 Zoetwaterneriet ·Theodoxus fluviatilis
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Mikkel Rødvig · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.96.48312 · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Almantas Kulbis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Almantas Kulbis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Planarian Ed · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Planarian Ed · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Theodoxus fluviatilis , common name the river nerite , is a species of small freshwater and brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,327 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- River Nerite
- Nederlands
- Zoetwaterneriet
- scientific name
- Theodoxus fluviatilis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Cycloneritida
- family
- Neritidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 975
- sightings worldwide
- 1,327
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,180
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 151234, Wikidata Q908813, GBIF 2291444, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.