Only a few weeks after scientists had found the world's tiniest snail, measuring 0.88 millimeters (0.03 inches) across in southern China, the record was broken by even smaller snails living in Kalimantan island.
The scientists named them Acmella nana—nanus being Latin for dwarf. Acmella nana has an average diameter of just 0.7 millimeters, which is approximately the thickness of five human hairs placed next to one another.
Specimens of the new species were collected in the rainforest of Kalimantan island in southeastern Asia.
The finding was published lately in the journal ZooKeys, along with 47 other new snail species.
The paper was authored by researchers with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Malaysian University of Sabah.
The researchers have been studying mollusks in Southeast Asia for more than 25 years
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