#4783 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Zebra Snail
Zebrina detrita
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Syrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © yotis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © mgreilhuber · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © mgreilhuber · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Andrea Angiari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Andrea Angiari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Björn S. · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Zebrina detrita is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,303 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Zebra Snail
- scientific name
- Zebrina detrita
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Enidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,168
- sightings worldwide
- 3,303
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Enidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326195, Wikidata Q912635, GBIF 7505521, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.