#4765 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Eastern Heath Snail

Xerolenta obvia

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Casey H. Richart · CC BY 4.0
2. © Casey H. Richart · CC BY 4.0
3. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Oregon Department of Agriculture · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © josefwirth · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Xerolenta obvia is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,750iNaturalist observations

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,750 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Karl Theodor Menke in 1828 (198 years ago).