#4609 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Netted Dogwhelk
🇳🇱 Gevlochten fuikhoren ·Tritia reticulata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Tritia reticulata , common name the "netted dog whelk" is a species of small European sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the dog whelks or nassa mud snails.
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 111 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #41 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 3,747 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Netted Dogwhelk
- Nederlands
- Gevlochten fuikhoren
- scientific name
- Tritia reticulata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Nassariidae
- sightings in NL
- 111
- sightings in Europe
- 2,604
- sightings worldwide
- 3,747
- GBIF records in NL
- 9,941
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Nassariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 507770, Wikidata Q61697800, GBIF 5727892, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.