Garden Snail
Cornu aspersum
Mollusca
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-5 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- Mediterranean Europe
- Movement
- Slithering
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Common
About
A familiar garden snail with a marbled brown spiral shell and slow gliding foot. It carries its house with it and can seal itself behind a chalky lid called an epiphragm to wait out dry weather 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
- Cornu
- Species
- Cornu aspersum