#4614 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Acute Bladder Snail
🇳🇱 Puntige blaashoren ·Physella acuta
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what is it?
Physella acuta is a species of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. Common names include European physa , Tadpole Snail , Bladder Snail , and Acute Bladder Snail . In addition, Phyla acuta , Physa heterostropha (Say, 1817) and Physa integra (Haldeman, 1841) are synonyms of Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805).
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 93 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #46 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 13,209 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1805 (221 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Acute Bladder Snail
- Nederlands
- Puntige blaashoren
- scientific name
- Physella acuta
- class
- Gastropoda
- family
- Physidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 93
- sightings in Europe
- 2,601
- sightings worldwide
- 13,209
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,744
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1805 by Jacques Draparnaud
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 448024, Wikidata Q1694040, GBIF 5189806, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.