#4796 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Zonites algirus
Zonites algirus
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jacky SERODY · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © benoitteyssendier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Urrustoy Etienne · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Alain MANDINE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Klaus Gilmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Klaus Gilmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Klaus Gilmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Zonites algirus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropodmollusk in the family Zonitidae.
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.
- 1,953 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Zonites algirus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Zonitidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,873
- sightings worldwide
- 1,953
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 487693, Wikidata Q2152434, GBIF 4568535, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.