#4677 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Dentate Thorn
🇳🇱 Slanke dwergslak ·Carychium tridentatum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Carychium tridentatum is a species of minute 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 21 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 429 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Risso in 1826 (200 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dentate Thorn
- Nederlands
- Slanke dwergslak
- scientific name
- Carychium tridentatum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Ellobiida
- family
- Ellobiidae
- sightings in NL
- 21
- sightings in Europe
- 303
- sightings worldwide
- 429
- GBIF records in NL
- 589
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1826 by Antoine Risso
relatives· Ellobiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 216162, Wikidata Q774673, GBIF 2291063, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.