#4779 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

European Snail

🇳🇱 Gevlekte grasslak ·Xerotricha conspurcata

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

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

what is it?

Xerotricha conspurcata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae. This snail is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe. This species makes and uses love darts as part of mating behavior.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,524iNaturalist 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.
3,524 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).