#4736 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Herald-snail
🇳🇱 Plompe dwergslak ·Carychium minimum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Russell St, Berkeley, CA, US
📍 77750 Boitron, France
📍 Oak Park, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
📍 Дзензелівка, Черкаська область, Україна, 20141
📍 Svyatoshyns'kyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000
📍 Hebrontshausen, Moosb. Str., 84104 Rudelzhausen, Deutschland
📍 10150 Sainte-Maure, France
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Russell St, Berkeley, CA, US:© Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 77750 Boitron, France:© Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Oak Park, Santa Barbara, CA, USA:© Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Дзензелівка, Черкаська область, Україна, 20141:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Svyatoshyns'kyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000:© Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Hebrontshausen, Moosb. Str., 84104 Rudelzhausen, Deutschland:© Veronika Vieth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 10150 Sainte-Maure, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Carychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.
base stats
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 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 222 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Herald-snail
- Nederlands
- Plompe dwergslak
- scientific name
- Carychium minimum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Ellobiida
- family
- Ellobiidae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 114
- sightings worldwide
- 222
- GBIF records in NL
- 856
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Ellobiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 216157, Wikidata Q194925, GBIF 2291066, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.