Green Leafsnail

Oxynoe viridis

Molluscs
IUCN: Not evaluated

Usual depth1–20 m
Water temperature16–30 °C
Best monthsApril
How commonOccasional

About this species

Oxynoe viridis is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Oxynoe viridis”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 14 records
February: 14 records
March: 14 records
April: 48 records
May: 20 records
June: 16 records
July: 19 records
August: 16 records
September: 12 records
October: 4 records
November: 15 records
December: 9 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 1–20 m · Deepest record: 32 m

0–10 m: 62 records
10–20 m: 25 records
20–30 m: 9 records
30–40 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 16–30 °C

14–16 °C: 8 records
16–18 °C: 1 records
18–20 °C: 1 records
20–22 °C: 52 records
22–24 °C: 21 records
24–26 °C: 30 records
26–28 °C: 27 records
28–30 °C: 46 records

Names and classification

English: Green Leafsnail

Names in 3 more languages

French: Oxynoe verte
Japanese: ナギサノツユ
Simplified Chinese: 青綠長足螺

Other scientific names: Lophocercus viridis, Oxynoe delicatula

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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.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
251 open-data records from 1861 to 2026.

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