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Brown Garden Snail
Cornu aspersum
33.0665, -117.068
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Description:
Brown snail with "a hard, thin calcareous shell 25–40 mm in diameter and 25–35 mm high, with four or five whorls. The shell is somewhat variable in color and shade but is generally dark brown or chestnut with yellow stripes, flecks, or streaks." - Wikipedia
Habitat:
Adobe wall along Mule Hill trail. "It was introduced to California as a food animal in the 1850s and is now a notorious agricultural pest there, especially in citrus groves. Many areas have quarantines established for preventing the importation of the snail in plant matter." - Wikipedia
Notes:
Formerly Helix aspersa
H. aspersa is "common name garden snail, is a species of land snail, a pulmonate gastropod that is one of the best-known of all terrestrial molluscs." - Wikipedia
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Cornu aspersum
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PublishedMarch 3, 2012
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