Otala lactea: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Otala
Species: Otala lactea
Scientific Name: Otala lactea

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Otala lactea

Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Archaeological recovery at the Ancient Roman site of Volubilis, in Morocco, illustrates prehistoric exploitation of O. lactea by humans.

Otala lactea in languages:

Chinese: 乳色耳形螺(乳狀耳形螺)
Czech: otala černoústá
Dutch: Getande melkslak
English: Milk Snail
English: Spanish Edible Snail
French: Escargot espagnol
Japanese: スペインサラセンマイマイ
Portuguese: Caracol-leitoso
Swedish: svartmunssnäcka

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