Acanthinula aculeata is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Valloniidae.

shell is slightly higher than wide and brown in colour.

The periostracum bears ribs ( elevated, radial ridges) with characteristic spines.

The animal is grey on the dorsum and tentacles.

[2] This species is found in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Great Britain, Ireland, Ukraine[3] and elsewhere.