#4841 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Cuban Brown Snail

Zachrysia provisoria

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Isaac Lord · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Lau GD · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Sandra H Statner · CC BY 4.0
4. © David Jeffrey Ringer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Chuck Sexton · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Chuck Sexton · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Susan J. Hewitt · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zachrysia provisoria is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae or Pleurodontidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,117iNaturalist 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.
7,117 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer in 1858 (168 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Cuban Brown Snail
scientific name: Zachrysia provisoria
class: Gastropoda
order: Stylommatophora
family: Zachrysiidae
sightings in NL: 0
sightings worldwide: 7,117
GBIF records in NL: 0
weight: —
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1858 by Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 233921, Wikidata Q16993589, GBIF 4304769, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.