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Tawny Glass Snail - Euconulus fulvus
This small, conical snail grows to around 3.5mm wide and as the common name suggests it is a tawny brown colour but with a partly transparent shell. The aperture is crescent-shaped and there is no imbilicus. The body of the live snail is pale, distinguishing it from Euconulus alderi which has a dark body.
Euconuls alderi shell is virtually indistinguishable but the live snail has a dark body in contrast to the pale body of E. fulvus.
- up to 3.5mm wide
- conical
- crescent-shaped aperture
- pale body
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Woodlands, usually in leaf litter or under logs.
All year
Common and widespread
Uncommon but probably under-recorded.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Tawny Glass Snail
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Pulmonata
- Family:
- Euconulidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 21/09/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 04/05/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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