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#4727 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Hollowed Gloss Snail

🇳🇱 Grofgestreepte glansslak ·Zonitoides excavatus

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Hollowed Gloss Snail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Walter Wimmer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zonitoides excavatus is a European species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae.

base stats

  • NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 29iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 29 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Joshua Alder in 1830 (196 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Hollowed Gloss Snail
Nederlands
Grofgestreepte glansslak
scientific name
Zonitoides excavatus
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Gastrodontidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
8
sightings in Europe
16
sightings worldwide
29
GBIF records in NL
135
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1830 by Joshua Alder

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Gastrodontidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336801, Wikidata Q3200140, GBIF 6098958, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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