Decollate Snail
Rumina decollata
Mollusca
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-5 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Mediterranean scrubland
- Range
- Mediterranean
- Movement
- Slithering
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Common
About
The decollate snail is a predatory land snail whose shell tip breaks off as it matures, leaving a blunt, truncated cone — the trait that gives it its name. Native to the Mediterranean, it is used as biological control in California where it hunts garden snails.
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
- Achatinidae
- Genus
- Rumina
- Species
- Rumina decollata