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#4717 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

American Ribbed Fluke Snail

Pseudosuccinea columella

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
American Ribbed Fluke Snail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Karin Mahlfeld, David Roscoe, Frank Climo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pseudosuccinea columella , common name the "American ribbed fluke snail", is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

base stats

  • NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 998iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 998 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1817 (209 years ago).

fact sheet

English
American Ribbed Fluke Snail
scientific name
Pseudosuccinea columella
class
Gastropoda
family
Lymnaeidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
9
sightings in Europe
24
sightings worldwide
998
GBIF records in NL
36
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1817 by Thomas Say

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Lymnaeidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129202, Wikidata Q959129, GBIF 2291334, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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