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Now this is the world's tiniest snail---a tiny guy discovered in Malaysian Borneo with a shell that is a mere 0.7 of a millimeter.

This one was found with 47 other new species of various sizes, according to Pensoft Publishers. This incredibly small snail was named as Acmella nana, or "dwarf."

It is the new record-holder, breaking the earlier record of the world's smallest snail of the Chinese Angustopila dominikae, which was named just one month ago.

A few of these snails that have been honoured with names in the journal ZooKeys  were known to scientists for long years, but just hadn't yet got names!

Others were crawling around in such rare vegetation types that they were found just recently. Seven of these had been found on Mount Kinabalu, towering about 16,000 feet.

Hence, these new species gave an insight into snail species in Borneo. As they were so slow, they remained in specific types of foliage for long, hence making them adaptable to unique environments. These gave clues as to how they were formed and also rose.

"A blazing forest fire at Loloposon Cave could wipe out the entire population of Diplommatina tylocheilos," said co-author Menno Schilthuizen of Naturalis Biodiversity Center  and Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

The "dwarf" snail was discovered on bedrock, with a translucent and shiny shell that had a "predominant spiral shape".