#4742 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Mouse-eared Snail
🇳🇱 Gewoon muizenoortje ·Myosotella myosotis
📍 Shollenberger Park, Petaluma, CA, US
📍 Espiguette, 30240 Le Grau-du-Roi, France
📍 Maine, US
📍 Alameda, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tim Johnson · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Chris Evers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Scott Loarie · CC0
- 7. Shollenberger Park, Petaluma, CA, US:© Michael A. Voeltz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Espiguette, 30240 Le Grau-du-Roi, France:© kassandra_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Maine, US:© Bela · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Alameda, CA, USA:© Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Myosotella myosotis , common name the mouse ear snail, is a European species of small, salt marsh 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 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 734 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mouse-eared Snail
- Nederlands
- Gewoon muizenoortje
- scientific name
- Myosotella myosotis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Ellobiida
- family
- Ellobiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 315
- sightings worldwide
- 734
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,764
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by Jacques Draparnaud
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ellobiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 225386, Wikidata Q1345208, GBIF 2297460, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.