Acicula fusca

Acicula fusca is a minute species of land snail in the family Aciculidae, known by the common name point snail. It is native to Europe, where it occurs in Britain, Ireland, France south to the Basses Pyrenees, Spain, Belgium and north-west Germany, and it is commonest in the west; its distribution type is described as Oceanic Temperate. The shell is only about 2 to 3 millimetres wide, with six whorls, shallow sutures and a blunt apex. The penultimate whorl is striated with 15 to 23 lines, the aperture climbs only slightly at that whorl, the apertural margin is not thickened inside, and the callus does not cover the umbilicus. A minute translucent operculum is present, and the surface is smooth and glossy, reddish to yellowish-brown. The point snail lives in wet moss and leaf litter in woodlands on calcareous soils. Because it is so small it is easily overlooked, which means its recorded range may understate where it actually lives.