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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 .
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
Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774) – white-lipped snail or garden banded snail; Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown-lipped snail or grove snail; Cepaea sylvatica (Draparnaud, 1801), now Macularia sylvatica; Cepaea vindobonensis (Férussac, 1821), now Caucasotachea vindobonensis
The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. [3] It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America. Subspecies. Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835) [4]
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.
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.
Theba pisana, common names the white garden snail, sand hill snail, white Italian snail, Mediterranean coastal snail, and simply just the Mediterranean snail, is an edible species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
The white outer lip is sometimes checkered with brown patches. The inside of the shell is chocolate brown. The width of the shell ranges from 10 to 12 millimetres ( 3 ⁄ 8 to 1 ⁄ 2 in) at maturity, [ 4 ] with an average length of 16 to 38 mm ( 5 ⁄ 8 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).