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#4684 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Dwarf pond snail

🇳🇱 Leverbotslak ·Galba truncatula

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Dwarf pond snail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Galba (Galba) truncatula is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

base stats

  • NL sightings 18iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 813iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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 18 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 813 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Dwarf pond snail
Nederlands
Leverbotslak
scientific name
Galba truncatula
class
Gastropoda
family
Lymnaeidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
18
sightings in Europe
414
sightings worldwide
813
GBIF records in NL
1,887
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Lymnaeidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 101168, Wikidata Q1453573, GBIF 2291336, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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