#4711 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Minute Gem
Hawaiia minuscula
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Maui County, US-HI, US
📍 Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd, Savannah, GA 31406, USA
📍 中国天津市河东区天山北路47XF+HJP 邮政编码: 300252
📍 San Diego County, US-CA, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Benjamin Schwartz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © C. Mallory · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Brent Steury · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Maui County, US-HI, US:© Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd, Savannah, GA 31406, USA:© Chris Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 中国天津市河东区天山北路47XF+HJP 邮政编码: 300252:© nana7mi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. San Diego County, US-CA, US:© Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Hawaiia minuscula , common name the minute gem or minute gem snail , is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.
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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 199 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Minute Gem
- scientific name
- Hawaiia minuscula
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Pristilomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 15
- sightings worldwide
- 199
- GBIF records in NL
- 36
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Pristilomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 220976, Wikidata Q3170131, GBIF 2295309, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.