milk snail

Otala lactea

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae

Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. Archaeological recovery at the Ancient Roman site of Volubilis, in Morocco, illustrates prehistoric exploitation of O. lactea by humans.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Netherlands · 19Belgium · 15Germany · 3United Kingdom · 1FranceSpain

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Manuel CABALLER, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionOtala lactea, Wikipedia contributors

milk snail

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