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The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The only other species in the genus is Cepaea nemoralis .
Moreover, snails disperse more slowly than many other animals, so the most suitable genes may be locally absent. For instance, biologists were at one time puzzled by the phenomenon of " area effects "; the same morph of Cepaea may be found consistently over a wide area but in adjacent areas of similar habitat a different set of morphs ...
White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a peccary species found in Central and South America in rainforest, dry forest and chaco scrub; White-lipped python, several species of snake; White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis), a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc
The white-lipped snail Cepaea hortensis. Original by Every1blowz. File:Snail-WA froggydarb-edit 01.jpg Edit 01 Cropped to get rid of the the brighter green leaves and the blown out sky in the upper right hand corner. Edit 02, by Fir0002. File:Snail-WA 03.jpg Edit 03, by Mad Max. Edited, by wolfmankurd removed some blown highlights.
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Photos show a Mt. Devica crystal snail shell from several angles. The delicate spiral shell almost looks like plastic. Like other Vitrea snails, the new species has both male and female genitalia ...
This species is the largest land snail in the Philippines. Shells of Ryssota ovum can reach a diameter of 70–100 millimetres (2.8–3.9 in). [3] These very large shells vary in color from pale brown to maroon and sometimes they show a brighter apex. The aperture is large and the interior may be white or bluish-white.
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