#4770 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Horn Shell
🇳🇱 Gewone Spitshoren ·Thericium vulgatum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 La Rochelle, France
📍 Mediterranean Sea, Marciana, Tuscany, IT
📍 P54Q+P8 Parque infantil, 04715 Almerimar, Almería, España
📍 Grad Pula, Pula, Chorvatsko
📍 Baños Del Carmen, Málaga-Este, 29017 Málaga, España
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Chris Taklis · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © George Manavopoulos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
- 6. La Rochelle, France:© Tanguy Loïs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Mediterranean Sea, Marciana, Tuscany, IT:© pmarte1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. P54Q+P8 Parque infantil, 04715 Almerimar, Almería, España:© Juan Valentín · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Grad Pula, Pula, Chorvatsko:© Daniel Benák · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Baños Del Carmen, Málaga-Este, 29017 Málaga, España:© algm02 · CC BY-NC 4.0
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,601 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Horn Shell
- Nederlands
- Gewone Spitshoren
- scientific name
- Thericium vulgatum
- class
- Gastropoda
- family
- Cerithiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,293
- sightings worldwide
- 4,601
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1636936, Wikidata Q141570657, GBIF 7425022. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.