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  2. Snail - Wikipedia

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    A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract

  3. Land snail - Wikipedia

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    Cornu aspersum (previously Helix aspersa) – the common garden snail – in Israel Colonies of snails in Sicily. 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 (those without shells are ...

  4. Cornu aspersum - Wikipedia

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    The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture. For purposes of cultivation, the snails are kept in a dark place in a wired cage with dry straw or dry wood. Coppiced wine-grape vines are often used for this purpose. During the rainy period the snails come out of hibernation and release most of their mucus onto the dry wood/straw.

  5. Gastropoda - Wikipedia

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    The anatomy of a common air-breathing land snail: much of this anatomy does not apply to gastropods in other clades or groups. Snails are distinguished by an anatomical process known as torsion, where the visceral mass of the animal rotates 180° to one side during development, such that the anus is situated more or less above the head. This ...

  6. Mollusca - Wikipedia

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    Cornu aspersum (formerly Helix aspersa)—a common land snail Shell of Marisa cornuarietis, a freshwater snail. Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks [a] (/ ˈ m ɒ l ə s k s /).

  7. Helicidae - Wikipedia

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    Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.

  8. Here's Why a Viennese Farmer Says Snails Are the ... - AOL

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    Viennese snails, or Wiener Schnecken in the local German language, were a major source of protein in the early 19th century, mostly for poor folk, just as they’d been for centuries. In fact ...

  9. Cepaea nemoralis - Wikipedia

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    The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. [3] It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America. Subspecies. Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835) [4]