Helicodonta obvoluta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Helicodontidae
- Genus
- Helicodonta
- Species
- Helicodonta obvoluta
- Scientific Name
- Helicodonta obvoluta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Helicodonta obvoluta
Helicodonta obvoluta is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodontidae.
- Subspecies
- Helicodonta obvoluta albanica A. J. Wagner, 1914
- Helicodonta obvoluta bosniaca O. Boettger, 1885
- Helicodonta obvoluta calabrica Degner, 1927
- Helicodonta obvoluta dentata (Westerlund, 1876)
- Helicodonta obvoluta obvoluta (O. F. Müller, 1774)
The distribution of this species is spread over large parts of Europe, where it inhabits deciduous and mixed forests. This species is sometimes called the "cheese snail" because the shape of the shell resembles that of a wheel of cheese.
...Helicodonta obvoluta in languages:
- Czech
- trojlaločka pyskatá
- Dutch
- Opgerolde tandslak
- English
- Cheese Snail
- French
- Veloutée plane
- German
- Riemenschnecke
- Hungarian
- korongcsiga
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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