#4645 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Grofgeribde fuikhoren
Tritia nitida
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Oost-Vlieland, Netherlands
📍 Zuid Langeweg, 4315 Dreischor, Nederland
📍 Monster, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Tholen, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Adrie Rolloos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Mike G. Rutherford · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Mike G. Rutherford · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Oost-Vlieland, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Zuid Langeweg, 4315 Dreischor, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Monster, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Tholen, Netherlands:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Tritia nitida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
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 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,627 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Gwyn Jeffreys in 1867 (159 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Grofgeribde fuikhoren
- scientific name
- Tritia nitida
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Nassariidae
- sightings in NL
- 36
- sightings in Europe
- 1,229
- sightings worldwide
- 1,627
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,275
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1867 by John Gwyn Jeffreys
relatives· Nassariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 796590, Wikidata Q61699328, GBIF 9711668, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.