#4719 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Behaarde grasslak
Xerotricha apicina
📍 IJmuiden, Nederland
📍 Domaine de la Pierre Droite, Domaine de la Pierre Droite, 11430 Gruissan, France
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
📍 Avenue de la Plage, Île-Tudy, Brittany, FR
📍 Côte de Montplaisir, Caunes-Minervois, Occitanie, FR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © anasacuta · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © anasacuta · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © anasacuta · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © benoitnabholz · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. IJmuiden, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Domaine de la Pierre Droite, Domaine de la Pierre Droite, 11430 Gruissan, France:© anasacuta · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Lisbon, Portugal:© lizard--o_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Avenue de la Plage, Île-Tudy, Brittany, FR:© five_legged_ant · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Côte de Montplaisir, Caunes-Minervois, Occitanie, FR:© Léo Souillard · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Xerotricha apicina is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 292 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Behaarde grasslak
- scientific name
- Xerotricha apicina
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Geomitridae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 238
- sightings worldwide
- 292
- GBIF records in NL
- 86
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
relatives· Geomitridae
#4613 📷 9Wrinkled Snail
🇳🇱 Grofgeribde grasslak
Xeroplexa intersecta
LC 👀 99 in NL
#4616 📷 10Vineyard Snail
🇳🇱 Bolle duinslak
Cernuella virgata
👀 91 in NL
#4678 📷 10Pointed Snail
🇳🇱 Slanke duinhoren
Cochlicella acuta
👀 20 in NL
#4693 📷 10Maritime Garden Snail
🇳🇱 Griekse duinslak
Cernuella cisalpina
DD 👀 15 in NL
#4731 📷 7Small Pointed Snail
🇳🇱 Bolle duinhoren
Cochlicella barbara
👀 6 in NL
#4734 📷 10Heath Snail
🇳🇱 Heideslak
Helicella itala
LC 👀 6 in NL
#4765 📷 7Eastern Heath Snail
Xerolenta obvia
🌍 6.8k seen
#4779 📷 9European Snail
🇳🇱 Gevlekte grasslak
Xerotricha conspurcata
🌍 3.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 361280, Wikidata Q8043898, GBIF 4564720, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.