Family Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a family in the order Pulmonata. Browse 6 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.
Species in Oxychilidae (6)
Smooth Glass Snail
Aegopinella nitidula
A small (up to 10 mm) land snail sometimes known as the Clear Glass Snail or Waxy Glass Snail. It has an orange-brown, glassy looking shell sometimes with dark mottling and veining showing. The body is blue-grey. Aegopinella nitidula is the largest o
Clear Glass Snail
Aegopinella pura
Small woodland snail to 4.5mm with rapidly expanding whorls. The shell is usually transparent or white, though the darker body of the snail shows through in live specimens. The shell sculpture has many, weak radial lines (visible at x20) plus very fa
Garlic Snail
Oxychilus alliarius
6-8mm - the Garlic Snail is pale, yellow-brown and glossy. It has a closely-coiled translucent shell with a very low spire and a medium umbilicus. The snail itself is characteristically dark blue-grey. When disturbed, this snail produces a secretion
Cellar Snail
Oxychilus cellarius
9-12 mm pale, translucent and glossy. Usually very pale, yellow brown. The body is pale bluish grey. Deep open umbilicus. No (garlic) smell when irritated. Oxychilis alliaris is smaller (6-8mm) with a strong garlic smell when irritated. Oxychilis nav
Draparnaud's Glass Snail
Oxychilus draparnaudi
This is the largest of the Glass Snails, reaching up to 15mm across. Unlike the other Oxychilus species, it has a waxy, not glossy, shell which is yellowish-brown in colour. It has a blue-grey body. Oxychilis snails can be a challenge to distinguish
Glossy Glass Snail
Oxychilus navarricus
A medium-sized (8 to 10 mm) glossy brown snail with a slightly raised spire, 5 flattened whorls and with sutures slightly deeper than those of O. cellarius . The body is blue-grey with jet-black mantle edge - that can be seen as a dark band at the fr