#4731 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Small Pointed Snail
🇳🇱 Bolle duinhoren ·Cochlicella barbara
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what is it?
Cochlicella barbara is a species of small but very high-spired, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicellidae.
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.
- 5,987 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Pointed Snail
- Nederlands
- Bolle duinhoren
- scientific name
- Cochlicella barbara
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Geomitridae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 2,241
- sightings worldwide
- 5,987
- GBIF records in NL
- 732
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Geomitridae
#4613 📷 9Wrinkled Snail
🇳🇱 Grofgeribde grasslak
Xeroplexa intersecta
LC 👀 99 in NL
#4616 📷 10Vineyard Snail
🇳🇱 Bolle duinslak
Cernuella virgata
👀 91 in NL
#4678 📷 10Pointed Snail
🇳🇱 Slanke duinhoren
Cochlicella acuta
👀 20 in NL
#4693 📷 10Maritime Garden Snail
🇳🇱 Griekse duinslak
Cernuella cisalpina
DD 👀 15 in NL
#4719 📷 10Behaarde grasslak
Xerotricha apicina
👀 9 in NL
#4734 📷 10Heath Snail
🇳🇱 Heideslak
Helicella itala
LC 👀 6 in NL
#4765 📷 7Eastern Heath Snail
Xerolenta obvia
🌍 6.8k seen
#4779 📷 9European Snail
🇳🇱 Gevlekte grasslak
Xerotricha conspurcata
🌍 3.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 217273, Wikidata Q3076593, GBIF 2296807, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.