#4714 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Milky Crystal-snail
🇳🇱 Kleine kristalslak ·Vitrea contracta
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Russell St, Berkeley, CA, US
📍 Murcia, Spanje
📍 Barcelona, Spain
📍 34380 Argelliers, France
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Guilherme Ramos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Russell St, Berkeley, CA, US:© Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Murcia, Spanje:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Barcelona, Spain:© Tim Johnson · CC BY 4.0
- 9. 34380 Argelliers, France:© Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Vitrea contracta is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.
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 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 202 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Agardh Westerlund in 1871 (155 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Milky Crystal-snail
- Nederlands
- Kleine kristalslak
- scientific name
- Vitrea contracta
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Pristilomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 92
- sightings worldwide
- 202
- GBIF records in NL
- 394
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1871 by Carl Agardh Westerlund
relatives· Pristilomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 233584, Wikidata Q3140250, GBIF 2295355, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.