Roman Snail
Helix pomatia
Mollusca
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-30 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Slithering
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Common
About
The Roman snail is a large European land snail with a creamy-white to light brown spiral shell up to 5 cm across, famous as the "escargot" of French cuisine. During winter it seals itself inside its shell with a calcified mucus plug called an epiphragm and hibernates for months.
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
- Helix
- Species
- Helix pomatia