Cepaea nemoralis
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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]
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Lemon or Grove snail Cepaea nemoralis | |
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Cepaea nemoralis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Helicidae |
Genus: | Cepaea |
Species: | C. nemoralis |
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Cepaea nemoralis | |
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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]
- Cepaea nemoralis nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the genus Cepaea.[5] It is used as a model organism in ecological genetics, including in citizen science projects.[6][7]