Pellucid Glass Snail - Vitrina pellucida
A small glass snail with a shell of about 5 or 6 mm diameter. It is translucently clear and slightly greenish, it has 3 whorls that enlarge rapidly and are somewhat convex. The opening is a rounded crescent shape.
These snails live in moist and shady places.
All year round, but most often observed in late autumn.
It eats liverworts and decayed leaves. It will also eat dead earthworms and horse manure. The species is predated by hedgehogs.
Common and widespread in Britain
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
08 November 2020
David Nicholls
Groby Pool Quarry
22 December 2018
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 February 2013
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 February 2013
David Nicholls
Groby Pool Quarry
02 February 2013
David Nicholls
Groby Pool Quarry
02 February 2013
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Species profile
- Common names
- Pellucid Glass Snail, Winter Semi-slug
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Pulmonata
- Family:
- Vitrinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 58
- First record:
- 27/07/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 27/10/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
08 November 2020
David Nicholls
Groby Pool Quarry
22 December 2018
