#4718 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Moss Chrysalis-snail
🇳🇱 Mostonnetje ·Pupilla muscorum
📍 Дзензелівка, Черкаська область, Україна, 20141
📍 Rotterdam, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Бородянський район, Київська обл., Україна
📍 340 Tower Road, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
📍 26120 Montélier, France
📍 Bacău, RO
📍 Rue de la Guérison, Péruwelz, Hainaut, BE
📍 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne, France
📍 Mainzer Sand, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thomas Everest · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. Дзензелівка, Черкаська область, Україна, 20141:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 3. Rotterdam, NL-ZH, NL:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Бородянський район, Київська обл., Україна:© Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 5. 340 Tower Road, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. 26120 Montélier, France:© Benoît Segerer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Bacău, RO:© Alexandru Pintilioaie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Rue de la Guérison, Péruwelz, Hainaut, BE:© Louis-salmon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne, France:© Nataël Adam · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Mainzer Sand, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE:© mayvirt · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pupilla muscorum , commonly known as the Moss Chrysalis snail or widespread column , is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 727 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Moss Chrysalis-snail
- Nederlands
- Mostonnetje
- scientific name
- Pupilla muscorum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Pupillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 355
- sightings worldwide
- 727
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,670
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 111372, Wikidata Q1538079, GBIF 5190466, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.