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title: "Muiltje"
description: "Crepidula fornicata — Andere dieren. Crepidula fornicata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer snails."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/common-atlantic-slippersnail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Muiltje

> Crepidula fornicata — Andere dieren. Crepidula fornicata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer snails.

- Scientific name: *Crepidula fornicata*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 16072
- Wikidata: [Q469081](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469081)
- iNaturalist taxon: [125343](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125343)

## Names

- en: Common Atlantic Slippersnail
- de: Amerikanische Pantoffelschnecke
- fr: Crépidule
- nl: Muiltje

## Countries with the most observations

US (9453), CA (1984), GB (1202), FR (821), DK (305), PT (183), NL (163), DE (117), ES (87), BE (67), JE (38), IE (23)

## Summary

Crepidula fornicata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer snails. It has many common names, including common slipper shell, common Atlantic slippersnail, boat shell, quarterdeck shell, fornicating slipper snail, Atlantic slipper limpet and it is in Britain as the "common slipper limpet".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepidula_fornicata

## Photo

![Muiltje](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-atlantic-slippersnail/medium.jpg)

Photo: dinomariobob · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305660090

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-atlantic-slippersnail?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).