Point Snail - Acicula fusca
A tiny (2.2 to 2.8 mm) species with glossy cylindrical shell and an operculum. The surface is smooth, glossy, reddish to yellowish-brown, with extremely fine, widely spaced radial striae.
Lives in deep, stable leaf litter, moss or soil in wooded habitats on base-rich soils.
All year round
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Point Snail
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Architaenioglossa
- Family:
- Aciculidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 24/09/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 24/09/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
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