Back

Common Garden Snail

Cornu aspersum

Classification

Family
Helicidae

Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. It is the type genus of the family Helicidae and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature. Members of the genus first appeared in the fossil record during the Miocene.

Distribution

Martien van den Heuvel · CC BY
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 61,840Germany · 24,492United Kingdom · 23,543France · 14,207Spain · 6,442Italy · 3,728Switzerland · 1,350Belgium · 879Peru · 645Luxembourg · 429