#4729 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Dwarf Snail
🇳🇱 Dwergpuntje ·Punctum pygmaeum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Imanta, Kurzeme District, Riga, Latvia
📍 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
📍 Heybridge, Maldon, UK
📍 10700 Vinets, France
📍 09320 Le Port, France
📍 Blylaget, Norway
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Imanta, Kurzeme District, Riga, Latvia:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany:© Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Heybridge, Maldon, UK:© nevermetsnails · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 10700 Vinets, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 09320 Le Port, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Blylaget, Norway:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Punctum pygmaeum is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk 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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 264 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dwarf Snail
- Nederlands
- Dwergpuntje
- scientific name
- Punctum pygmaeum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Punctidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 174
- sightings worldwide
- 264
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,033
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by Jacques Draparnaud
relatives· Punctidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336796, Wikidata Q3203820, GBIF 4568278, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.