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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 .
A comparison between Cepaea hortensis (left) and Caucasotachea vindobonensis (right). For a long time, four species were classified in the genus Cepaea.However, molecular phylogenetic studies suggested that two of them should be placed in the genera Macularia and Caucasotachea, which are not immediate relatives of either Cepaea or each other: [3] [4]
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]
The peristome is white and thickened with a strong white lip. [8] [4] The umbilicus is rapidly narrowing to a narrow, deep perforation. [4] The width of umbilicus is one-eighth the greatest diameter. [4] The width of the shell is 15 mm. [8] [4] The height of the shell is 8.5 mm. [4]
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).
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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.
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