#4739 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
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Pyrgophorus platyrachis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Merritt Island, Merritt Island, FL, US
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oviedo, FL, US
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © larvalfishguy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Merritt Island, Merritt Island, FL, US:© larvalfishguy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Oviedo, FL, US:© larvalfishguy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pyrgophorus platyrachis is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
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 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Serrate Crownsnail
- scientific name
- Pyrgophorus platyrachis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Cochliopidae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 6
- sightings worldwide
- 9
- GBIF records in NL
- 6
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 229605, Wikidata Q3170276, GBIF 2299858, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.