Cepaea
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Cepaea is a genus of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae. The shells are often brightly coloured and patterned with brown stripes. The two
Cepaea.hortensis
A comparison between Cepaea hortensis (left) and Caucasotachea vindobonensis (right)
Cepaea nemoralis, showing colour and banding polymorphisms
Song thrush anvil with broken Cepaea shells
White-lipped snail
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The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The
Cepaea
…suggested that two of them should be placed in the genera Macularia and Caucasotachea, which are not immediate relatives of either Cepaea or each other: Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774) – white-lipped snail or garden banded snail Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown-lipped snail or grove snail…
White lipped Snail
Yellow shell with five unfused bands
C. hortensis love dart (0.5 mm scale bar above and 50 μm below)