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Roman Snail

Helix pomatia

Classification

Family
Helicidae

Helix pomatia, known as the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or escargot, is a species of large, air-breathing stylommatophoran land snail native to Europe. It is characterized by a globular brown shell. Distribution The present distribution of Helix pomatia is considerably affected by the dispersion by human and synanthropic occurrences.

Distribution

Hannco Bakker · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 51,459Netherlands · 19,260Switzerland · 8,286France · 5,501Luxembourg · 2,102Italy · 1,764United Kingdom · 984Belgium · 482Spain · 22