Two Toothed Door Snail - Clausilia bidentata
About 10 to 12 mm in length and 3 mm at widest point. The spiral shell shows numerous grooves or growth lines.
They live mainly in woods and hedges in leaf litter or among rocks normally hiding in crevices or beneath the ground litter.
Most likely to be found in damp conditions or at night and can be seen all year round.
Emerges in damp weather and at night and climbs high up on bare surfaces to graze on algae and lichens.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Gould
Brown's Hill Quarry, Holwell NR
11 May 2017
Mike Higgott
Anstey, North Wood 3
08 April 2023
Mike Higgott
Anstey, North Wood 3
08 April 2023
David Nicholls
Tilton Cutting NR
23 May 2009
David Nicholls
Cloud Wood
25 October 2022
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 May 2014
AJ Cann
Stoughton Grange
25 October 2019
HAPeacock
Goss Spinney
26 April 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Two-toothed Door Snail
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Pulmonata
- Family:
- Clausiliidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 132
- First record:
- 27/07/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 15/03/2025 (Cooper, Barbara)
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Barbara Cooper
Clawson Hill
16 May 2014
HAPeacock
Goss Spinney
26 April 2012
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 February 2013
HAPeacock
Goss Spinney
26 April 2012
David Nicholls
Ketton Quarry
13 June 2014
Mike Higgott
County Hall
04 October 2016
David Nicholls
Cloud Wood
07 July 2012
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 May 2014
Alan Semper
Holwell Mouth
10 April 2015
David Nicholls
Ketton Quarry
13 June 2014
Mike Higgott
County Hall
18 February 2019
David Gould
Wood Close Plantation, Leicester.
06 May 2018
Mike Higgott
County Hall
07 November 2017
David Nicholls
Thornton reservoir
02 February 2021
mttnx
Great Merrible Wood
21 May 2022
Mike Higgott
Anstey, North Wood 3
08 April 2023
