Two Lipped Door Snail (Alinda biplicata)

Two-lipped_Snail-2 After a heavy rain, our garden was full of snails - including a large number of these interesting ones that I had never seen before. Alinda biplicata,Baden-Würtemburg,Garden,Geotagged,Germany,Ravensburg,Summer,Two lipped door snail

Appearance

Like all species in this family, this snail has a clausilium. This spoon-shaped "door" is supported by, and slides in, a series of internal shell folds, see the image below.

The weight of the adult live snail is 148.6±5.7 mg.

Two lipped door snail Sint Joris Weert, Belgium (April 2012).
One morning I found this tiny snail climbing up one of my kitche windows. it felt almost painful to see such a small thing carrying such a big long house!
Two lipped door snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae. this snail has a clausilium. This spoon-shaped "door" is supported by, and slides in, a series of internal shell folds.
Habitat:
This species is known to occur in a number of European countries. Alinda biplicata,Belgium,Geotagged,Spring

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:
⤷ Czech Republic
⤷ Poland
⤷ Slovakia
⤷ Bulgaria
⤷ Greece
⤷ Switzerland
⤷ France
⤷ Belgium
⤷ Netherlands
⤷ Great Britain
This species is rare in Great Britain. In England, it is found mainly in the London area, almost exclusively along the River Thames, and is particularly preserved at Isleworth Ait. There is also a colony at Purfleet in Essex.
⤷ and other areas

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Status: Not evaluated
EX	EW	CR	EN	VU	NT	LC

Taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Division	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Stylommatophora
Family	Clausiliidae
Genus	Alinda
Species	A. biplicata

Photographed in
Belgium
Germany