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White Lipped Snail

Cepaea hortensis

Photo by LisaGrant
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

The white-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc.

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Comments (2)

I've moved this spotting from the Arthropods category to the Other category for you. Arthropods have exoskelatons and jointed limbs; think bees, dragonflies, crabs, etc.
This makes me want to start collecting empty Snail shells, they can be so pretty.

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