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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.
Helix lucorum, European snail; Helix pomatia, Roman snail or Burgundy escargot, is the most consumed species in France; Helix salomonica; From the family Achatinidae: Lissachatina fulica (formerly Achatina fulica), giant African snail, is very popular. From the genus Cepaea: Cepaea nemoralis, grove snail, known as rayado ('striped' snail) in Spain
The Bouchet et al. 2017 [1] nomenclator provides an up to date system of Helicoidea. The system is in some parts preliminary, as the authors relied on unpublished (as of 2023) phylogenomic study, which did not include all New World taxa.
Lumaca romana, (translation: Roman snail), was an ancient method of snail farming or heliciculture in the region about Tarquinia. This snail-farming method was described by Fulvius Lippinus (49 BC) and mentioned by Marcus Terentius Varro in De Re rustica III, 12. The snails were fattened for human consumption using spelt and aromatic herbs.
Helicinae is a subfamily of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae.It contains mostly large land snail species, distributed in the western Palaearctic.The most recent (as of 2023) classification proposed division into three tribes.
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.
Garden snail (Cornu aspersum) date uncertain Europe: meat, eggs, shells, slime, pets Captive-bred 7a Mollusca: Giant Ghana African snail (Achatina achatina) [197] date uncertain Ghana, Kenya: meat, eggs, shells, slime, pets Captive-bred 7a Mollusca: Giant East African (Lissachatina fulica) [198] and African land snails (L. albopicta) date ...
Asperitas inquinata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Dyakiidae. This species has two subspecies: Asperitas inquinata moussoni and Asperitas inquinata penidae. This snail is found in Indonesia and Bali, with the subspecies A. inquinata penidae being found also on Penida Island. [1]