#4687 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Lovely Vallonia
🇳🇱 Fraaie jachthorenslak ·Vallonia pulchella
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Casey H. Richart · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Danio Miserocchi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © [1] · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Vallonia pulchella , common name the lovely vallonia , is a species of very 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 16 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,572 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lovely Vallonia
- Nederlands
- Fraaie jachthorenslak
- scientific name
- Vallonia pulchella
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Valloniidae
- sightings in NL
- 16
- sightings in Europe
- 487
- sightings worldwide
- 1,572
- GBIF records in NL
- 655
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Valloniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 203786, Wikidata Q3138089, GBIF 2296010, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.