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milk snail
Otala lactea lactea
Classification
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Helicidae
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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.
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Distribution
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 1,432
Sources and credits
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