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Helix pomatia, known as the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or escargot, is a species of large, air-breathing stylommatophoran land snail native to Europe. It is characterized by a globular brown shell. It is an edible species which commonly occurs synanthropically throughout its range.
A snail farm near Eyragues, Provence, France. Heliciculture, commonly known as snail farming, is the process of raising edible land snails, primarily for human consumption or cosmetic use. [1] The meat and snail eggs a.k.a. white caviar can be consumed as escargot and as a type of caviar, respectively. [2]
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.
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Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. [1] [2]It is the type genus of the family Helicidae, and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus [3] at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature.
The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture. For purposes of cultivation, the snails are kept in a dark place in a wired cage with dry straw or dry wood. Coppiced wine-grape vines are often used for this purpose. During the rainy period the snails come out of hibernation and release most of their mucus onto the dry wood/straw.
The spiny river snail, scientific name Io fluvialis, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This is the only species in the genus Io . [ 3 ] This species is endemic to the USA.