Lovely vallonia
The lovely vallonia is a teeny tiny land snail. Its round, flat shell is white like ivory, with very fine streaks. Even its soft body is milky white.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its eggs are only half a millimetre across, smaller than a grain of sugar.
The parent snail seems to clean mould off its eggs. Snails that look after their eggs like this are very rare.
It likes damp soil, a thick layer of fallen leaves and shade, where it does not dry out.
In North America it is often found in woods and in gardens around houses.
Most asked questions about Lovely vallonia
?How big is the lovely vallonia?
It is a very small snail. Even its eggs are only half a millimetre across.
?Where does the lovely vallonia live?
On damp ground under fallen leaves, in woods and gardens in Europe and North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vallonia pulchella
- Named by
- O. F. Müller, 1774
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Valloniidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Valloniidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Vallonia pulchella (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 Müller, 1774. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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