#4708 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Pinhead Spot Snail
🇳🇱 Duintolletje ·Paralaoma servilis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Jeep Trail, Newport Beach, CA, US
📍 Victoria, AU
📍 California, US
📍 Kemper Avenue, La Crescenta, California 
📍 Los Angeles County, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © lagabrielle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Jeep Trail, Newport Beach, CA, US:© Michael A. Voeltz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Victoria, AU:© Sharking Around · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. California, US:© Trevor Van Loon · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Kemper Avenue, La Crescenta, California :© Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. Los Angeles County, CA, USA:© Casey H. Richart · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Paralaoma servilis is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
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.
- 728 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert James Shuttleworth in 1852 (174 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pinhead Spot Snail
- Nederlands
- Duintolletje
- scientific name
- Paralaoma servilis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Punctidae
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 196
- sightings worldwide
- 728
- GBIF records in NL
- 288
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1852 by Robert James Shuttleworth
relatives· Punctidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 292816, Wikidata Q3201294, GBIF 4568269, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.