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Cellar snail

Oxychilus cellarius (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

The cellar snail (Oxychilus cellarius) is a species in the family Oxychilidae.

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Quick facts about the cellar snail

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the cellar snail live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cellar snail as introduced in 6 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Swedeninvasive
  2. Japan
  3. Latvia
  4. New Zealand
  5. South Africa
  6. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the cellar snail endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the cellar snail classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. familyOxychilidae
  5. genusOxychilus
  6. SpeciesOxychilus cellarius (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Synonyms Helix cellaria, Helix corneafulva, Helix glaphyra, Helix margaritacea, Helix sydneyensis, Hyalinia blidahensis, Hyalinia cellaria, Hyalinia cellaria var. chersa, Hyalinia cellaria var. maculata, Hyalinia cellaria var. minor, Hyalinia cellaria var. obscura, Hyalinia cellaria var. subalbida, Hyalinia cellaria var. subaperta, Hyalinia cellaria var. sylvatica, Hyalinia chersa, Hyalinia heracleensis, Hyalinia lauta, Hyalinia lusitanica, Hyalinia margaritacea, Hyalinia montsicci, Hyalinia neglecta, Hyalinia rouvieri, Hyalinia subfarinesiana, Oxychilus cellaria, Oxychilus cellarium, Oxychilus cellarius, Oxychilus montsicci, Oxychilus pulchro-striatum, Oxychilus pulchrostriatum, Polita cellaria, Suterella novare, Vitrea cellarius, Vitrea cellarius var. margaritacea, Vitrea hibernica, Vitrea scharffi, Zonites cellarius, Zonites cellarius var. albida, Zonites cellarius var. compacta, Zonites cellarius var. complanata, Zonites cellarius var. elevatus

Other names and names in other languages (21)
  • Cellar glass snailEnglish
  • Cellar glass-snailEnglish
  • skelnatka drnováCzech
  • KælderrovsneglDanish
  • Keller-GlanzschneckeGerman
  • Caracolito europeo de bodegaSpanish
  • kellarikotiloFinnish
  • Escargot lustré des cavesFrench
  • Podrumar staklenakCroatian
  • 유리호박달팽이Korean
  • Šlaitinis blizgenisLithuanian
  • kjellerglanssneglNorwegian Bokmål
  • KelderglansslakDutch
  • kjellarglanssnigelNorwegian Nynorsk
  • szklarka błyszczącaPolish
  • Улитка кислая подвальнаяRussian
  • bliktra záhradnáSlovak
  • källarglanssnäckaSwedish
  • KælderglanssneglDanish
  • Luisant des cavesFrench
  • Kelder-glansslakDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cellar snail

Other species in the same genus Oxychilus.

Garlic snail

Oxychilus alliarius

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the cellar snail an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the cellar snail as invasive in 1 country: Sweden. It lists it as introduced in 6 in all.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cellar snail (Oxychilus cellarius). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cellar-snail

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BibTeX
@misc{cellar_snail_2026,
  title = {Cellar snail (Oxychilus cellarius)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cellar-snail},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}