#4728 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Round-mouthed Snail
🇳🇱 Geruite rondmondhoren ·Pomatias elegans
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Klaus Gilmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © bscrl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gilberto Sánchez Jardón · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Patrice78500 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © meedc · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Daniel Jolivet · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Cédric Roy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Pomatias elegans , common name the round-mouthed snail, is a species of small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiidae within the superfamily Littorinoidea, the winkles and their allies.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,949 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Round-mouthed Snail
- Nederlands
- Geruite rondmondhoren
- scientific name
- Pomatias elegans
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Pomatiidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 7,496
- sightings worldwide
- 7,949
- GBIF records in NL
- 804
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336731, Wikidata Q1547232, GBIF 5777888, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.