Common Whorl Snail - Vertigo pygmaea
This is a very small species the shell being about 2 mm in length. It is mid brown in colour with 4 to 7 fairly prominent teeth. The shell surface is dull to slightly glossy and often quite silky in appearance. Typically there is a bulge in the shell behind the mouth lip.
Found in damp pastures and at the margins of wetlands at low altitude.
All year round.
Widespread and fairly frequent over much of Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks Quarry
04 August 2018
David Nicholls
Sandhills Lodge field, Charnwood
19 September 2022
David Nicholls
Sandhills Lodge field, Charnwood
19 September 2022
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR
18 February 2016
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks Quarry
04 August 2018
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks Quarry
04 August 2018
bulge behind mouth lip
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Whorl Snail
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Pulmonata
- Family:
- Vertiginidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 22/09/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 19/09/2022 (Nicholls, David)
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