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This minute Desmoulin's whorl snail Vertigo moulinsiana is an example of a stylommatophoran land snail: it has only one pair of tentacles. Its brown shell has four whorls and is about 3 mm in length.
This rare land snail lives in marshes and swamps in Europe. It is protected by the European Union's Habitats Directive.