Listed as near the threatened on the IUCN Red List, the Slender Pond Snail has been going through a ‘silent’ disappearance in Britain. Clive Walton outlines how the recent find of a population in Bavelaw, Scotland offers an opportunity to further our understanding of the species’ ecology and life history.
This article is a celebration of one of our most fascinating fringed mesotrophic freshwater loch habitats, and in particular one of its special resident molluscs. The elegant and elusive Slender Pond Snail Omphiscola glabra, sometimes known as the Pond Mud Snail, is a pulmonate, or ‘sac-breathing’, freshwater snail of the superorder Hydrophila and family Lymnaeidae.