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  2. Helix pomatia - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Helicidae - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Heliciculture - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Helix (gastropod) - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Snails as food - Wikipedia

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    Live snails for sale in a market in France. There is a tradition of consuming snails in Andorra, Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal on the European side and Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on the African side. Cornu aspersum is the most widespread species in the Mediterranean basin, the Iberian Peninsula, and the French Atlantic coast.

  7. Cornu aspersum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Haul of ancient Roman coins discovered in Sicily - AOL

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    A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily region said on Monday. The discovery was made during a cleaning ...

  9. Cochlearium - Wikipedia

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    The word cochlea literally means spiral or snail shell, leading many to conclude that the spoon was designed so that the handle could be used to extract snails or cockles out of the shell. [2] The Roman terms cochlearium, cochlear, and cochleare denote a liquid measure of a spoonful. [3] A cochlearium was also a place where snails could be bred ...