Copse Snail
Arianta arbustorum
Mollusca
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-4 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Slithering
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Common
About
The Copse Snail is a medium-sized European land snail with a rounded, ribbed shell bearing a distinctive brown band and white lip. It is remarkably cold-tolerant and can survive being frozen solid beneath alpine snowpack, resuming activity once temperatures rise.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile mollusk takes adult form after its larval phase and begins building or growing its shell.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult shell size or body length.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Helicidae
- Genus
- Arianta
- Species
- Arianta arbustorum