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White Lipped Snail

Cepaea hortensis

Photo by LisaGrant
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Field Notes

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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Cepaea hortensis (Muller, 1774), White-lipped snail

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Comments (2)
Ava T-B
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.
alicelongmartin
This makes me want to start collecting empty Snail shells, they can be so pretty.

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Garden Snails of California

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PublishedJune 26, 2011

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