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SCIENTIFIC NAME
COMMON NAME
THUMBNAILS
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Stylommatophora
Family Helicidae
Genus Theba
Species pisana
Classification Mueller
Common name white garden snail
Size diameter: 12 - 15 millimeters; height: 9 - 12 millimeters

Geographic Range it is native to southwestern England and Wales, Ireland, western France, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries of Europe and Africa. It has been introduced into the Atlantic islands, South Africa, Somaliland, and western Australia.
Physical Characteristics
the shell is subglobose with a moderately depressed spire. The adult shell has 5 1/2 to 6 slightly convex whorls. The shell is opaque and moderately solid. The aperture of the shell is rounded and lunate and only slightly oblique. The lip of the aperture is sharp, some specimens show a thickening inside the lip. It is is a cross-fertilizing hermaphrodite.
Behaviour during dry weather, most slugs and snails aestivate hidden under logs or stones or buried in the earth. However, white garden snail aestivates in the open on trees, fences, and other vertical surfaces.
Habitat in the western coasts of Norhern Adriatic Sea it can be found on the dunes and in few other environments of the lagoon edge area and of lagoon islands.
Reproduction the laying of the eggs takes place from June to October.

Sources  
References University of Florida - Institute of Food and Agricoltural Sciences
Web References http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/
Source of the photo http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/

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