#4688 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Pellucid Glass-snail
🇳🇱 Doorschijnende glasslak ·Vitrina pellucida
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 St.Chads, Shrewsbury, UK
📍 22950 Trégueux, France
📍 Rożnowice 32, 64-610, Polska 
📍 Kauno r. sav., Lietuva
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sam R · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sam R · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © pmbrousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. St.Chads, Shrewsbury, UK:© Sam R · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 22950 Trégueux, France:© jfb22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Rożnowice 32, 64-610, Polska :© michal_michlewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Kauno r. sav., Lietuva:© Vytautas · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Vitrina pellucida is species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vitrinidae, the glass 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 16 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,490 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pellucid Glass-snail
- Nederlands
- Doorschijnende glasslak
- scientific name
- Vitrina pellucida
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Vitrinidae
- sightings in NL
- 16
- sightings in Europe
- 700
- sightings worldwide
- 1,490
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,072
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 233586, Wikidata Q1791116, GBIF 2294290, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.