Fried Egg Bubble Snail

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 47 records
February: 41 records
March: 46 records
April: 54 records
May: 57 records
June: 58 records
July: 64 records
August: 85 records
September: 45 records
October: 63 records
November: 65 records
December: 61 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–18 m · Deepest record: 45 m

0–10 m: 64 records
10–20 m: 67 records
20–30 m: 9 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C

18–20 °C: 7 records
20–22 °C: 30 records
22–24 °C: 13 records
24–26 °C: 46 records
26–28 °C: 22 records
28–30 °C: 74 records

Photos

(c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Jay Paroline, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Abraham Yuen, Jill Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Fried Egg Bubble Snail

Names in 3 more languages

French: Limace-œufs-au-plat
Japanese: トンプソンアワツブガイ
Simplified Chinese: 湯普森透螺, 湯普生腎形盾殼海蛞蝓, 荷包蛋海蛞蝓

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
286 open-data records from 1975 to 2026.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.