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#4613 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Wrinkled Snail

🇳🇱 Grofgeribde grasslak ·Xeroplexa intersecta

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Erika Mitchell · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Casey H. Richart · CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. © Gianfrs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  4. 4. © Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. © David Bellamy · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Claudio Maureira · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  8. 8. © Claudio Maureira · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  9. 9. © Claudio Maureira · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wrinkled Snail, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Erika Mitchell · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Xeroplexa intersecta is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae,. This specie was previously included within the genus Candidula .

base stats

  • NL sightings 99iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,361iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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 99 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #45 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
  • 2,361 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Wrinkled Snail
Nederlands
Grofgeribde grasslak
scientific name
Xeroplexa intersecta
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Geomitridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
99
sightings in Europe
1,329
sightings worldwide
2,361
GBIF records in NL
3,765
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Geomitridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 804125, Wikidata Q106196612, GBIF 9890104, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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