#4672 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Costate Vallonia
🇳🇱 Geribde jachthorenslak ·Vallonia costata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Breda West, Breda, Nederland
📍 Reuver, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 3981 Bunnik, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Diego González Dopico · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Guilherme Ramos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Guilherme Ramos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Breda West, Breda, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Reuver, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 3981 Bunnik, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Vallonia costata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae....
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 22 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,398 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Costate Vallonia
- Nederlands
- Geribde jachthorenslak
- scientific name
- Vallonia costata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Valloniidae
- sightings in NL
- 22
- sightings in Europe
- 973
- sightings worldwide
- 1,398
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,158
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Valloniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 233380, Wikidata Q3172983, GBIF 2296011, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.