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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. Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng National Park - Wikipedia

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    Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi.

  4. 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.

  5. 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]

  6. 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.

  7. Helicinae - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cornu aspersum - Wikipedia

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    Cornu aspersum in warm regions commonly emerges in moist weather in winter. Sinistral form (exceptional) and dextral form (common) The adult bears a hard, thin calcareous shell 25–40 millimetres (1– 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter and 25–35 millimetres (1– 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) high, with four or five whorls.

  9. Snail - Wikipedia

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    A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs . However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.