#4590 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Hairy Snail

🇳🇱 Gewone haarslak ·Trochulus hispidus

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Trochulus hispidus , previously known as Trichia hispida , common name, the "hairy snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

base stats

NL sightings 203iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,698iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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 203 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #22 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
10,698 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).