Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Mollusks
  4. Gastropods
  5. Common Land Snails and Slugs
  6. Gastrodontoidea
  7. Glass Snails

family

Glass Snails

Gastrodontidae

Includes
24 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Button Snails 8 native
  • Dome Snails 6 native
  • Gloss Snails 3 native
  • Striatura 2 native
  • Gastrodonta 1 native
  • Vitrinizonites 1 native
  • Glyphyalinia 1 native
  • Nesovitrea
  • Perpolita
  • Pseudohyalina
  • Lapa
  • Godwinia
  • Retinella
  • Aegopinella

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native glass snails All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Quick Gloss Snail Zonitoides arboreus 4,575 observations
  • Black Gloss Snail Zonitoides nitidus 3,269 observations
  • Globose Dome Snail Ventridens ligera 2,589 observations
  • Carved Glyph Glyphyalinia indentata 144 observations
  • Northwest Striate Striatura pugetensis 51 observations
  • Amber Glass Perpolita electrina 44 observations
  • Bright Glyph Glyphyalinia wheatleyi 29 observations
  • Median Striate Snail Striatura meridionalis 26 observations
  • Fine-ribbed Striate Striatura milium 17 observations
  • Mountain Button Snail Mesomphix andrewsae 10 observations
  • Imperforate Glyph Glyphyalinia solida 8 observations
  • Flat Dome Snail Ventridens suppressus 7 observations
  • Thin Glyph Glyphyalinia cryptomphala 5 observations
  • Crossed Dome Snail Ventridens decussatus 1 observations
  • Live Oak Glass Lapa dalliana 1 observations
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect