Pointed snail
The pointed snail has a very unusual shell: tall, thin and pointy like a tiny ice cream cone turned upside down. It is usually cream-coloured with brown blotches or bands. It loves sandy places near the sea.
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Fun facts
Its shell is 10 to 20 millimetres tall but only 4 to 7 millimetres wide.
Its shell has 8 to 11 turns, coiling up to a blunt tip.
In hot, dry weather it glues itself to fence posts and tall weeds and waits for cooler days.
In some places, like coastal dunes in Britain, there are huge numbers of them.
In Australia it was brought in by people and has become a pest.
Most asked questions about Pointed snail
?How big is the pointed snail?
Its shell is 10 to 20 millimetres tall and 4 to 7 millimetres wide.
?Where does the pointed snail live?
Mostly in sand dunes and grassy places near the sea in western Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cochlicella acuta
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Geomitridae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Geomitridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cochlicella acuta (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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