World's tiniest snail record broken with a myriad of new species from Borneo

Monday, November 2, 2015 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

The world's record for the smallest land snail is broken once again. A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Borneo by a team of biologists along with another 47 new species of greatly varying sizes. Called a 'dwarf,' Acmella nana, is first-shown to the world in a journal where the last record-holder was announced only about a month ago.

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