page_title: Omphiscola glabra
section_title: Shell description
hierarchical_section_title: Omphiscola glabra / Shell description
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of shells of Omphiscola glabra. Scale in mm. Locality: Germany, near Lauenburg/Elbe. Date: May 1952.
context_page_description: Omphiscola glabra is a species of small to medium-size, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.
  Omphiscola glabra is the type species of the genus Omphiscola.
context_section_description: The shell is strongly cylindrical, horny, often with a brownish or blackish surface, the apex is blunt, 7-8 moderately convex whorls, with last whorl being twice as high as the narrow aperture, and with aperture often with white lip.
  The height of the shell is 9–12 mm, up to 15 mm or up to 20 mm. The width of the shell is 3–4 mm, up to 5.5 mm.
caption: Five shells of Omphiscola glabra
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