← Back
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.
Aucune description en français n’est encore disponible.
Todavía no hay una descripción disponible en español.
Distribution
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
More from the same family
Common Garden Snail
Cornu aspersum
HelicidaeWhite Snail
Theba pisana
HelicidaeBrown Lipped Snail
Cepaea nemoralis
Helicidaechocolate-band snail
Eobania vermiculata
HelicidaeCopse Snail
Arianta arbustorum
HelicidaeWhite-lipped Snail
Cepaea hortensis
HelicidaeLapidary Snail
Helicigona lapicida
HelicidaeTurkish snail
Helix lucorum
Helicidae