#4678 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Pointed Snail

🇳🇱 Slanke duinhoren ·Cochlicella acuta

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Rolf Lawrenz · CC BY 4.0
2. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Jean and Fred Hort · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Mike · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Cadzand-Bad, Cadzand, Netherlands:© Philip Waldman · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 3199 Maasvlakte Rotterdam, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. 4525 LX Retranchement, Netherlands:© Jens Bokelaar · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 3199 LC Maasvlakte Rotterdam, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Bloemendaal, Netherlands:© severinus · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Maasvlakte, Maasvlakte Rotterdam, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Cochlicella acuta , common name the pointed snail , is a species of small but very high-spired, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicellidae.

base stats

NL sightings 20iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,482iNaturalist observations

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).