Jenkins' Spire Snail - Potamopyrgus antipodarum
5.5mm. This small freshwater snail has an operculum. It has a right-handed coiling, elongated shell with 7 or 8 whorls separated by deep grooves and small spines sometimes occur on the widest part of each whorl. The mouth aperture is oval, or pointed oval (almond-shaped), and its height is less than the height of the spire. The mouth also protrudes slightly from the main shell.
Fresh and brackish water habitats.
All year round.
An invasive species now widespread and frequent in most of Britain.
Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Cossington NR
15 October 2013
David Nicholls
Cossington NR
15 October 2013
David Nicholls
Watermead South
29 January 2024
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
16 May 2013
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
16 May 2013
Annie Smith
Black Brook
23 February 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Jenkins' Spire Snail
- Species group:
- mollusc
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Littorinimorpha
- Family:
- Tateidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 55
- First record:
- 15/08/1981 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 14/03/2026 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Cossington NR
15 October 2013
Annie Smith
Black Brook
23 February 2018
David Nicholls
Thornton, Busky Wood
01 September 2019
