Heliciculture, commonly known as snail farming, is the process of raising edible land snails, primarily for human consumption or cosmetic use. The meat and snail eggs a.k.a. white caviar can be consumed as escargot and as a type of caviar, respectively.
A snail farm near Eyragues, Provence, France
Three different species of snails for sale in a market in Turin, Italy
Cepaea nemoralis
Lissachatina fulica
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells. However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water.
Helix pomatia, a species of air-breathing land snail used for escargot, is a little bit larger than the common garden snail.
Cornu aspersum (previously Helix aspersa) – the common garden snail – in Israel
Colonies of snails in Sicily
"The Teeth of a Snail" from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, 1665. This actually shows the jaw, against which the teeth on the radula act.
