Common White Snail
S1, profile
Ellura
Common White Snail
S1, Umbilicus
 
                      
Common White Snail (Cernuella virgata)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Molluscs (Mollusca) - Gastropods, Slugs, And Snails (Gastropoda)
Order: Land Snails & Slugs (Stylommatophora)
Family: Small Land Snail (Hygromiidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Common White Snail (Cernuella virgata)
This Photo:     S3, Dead, profile
Other names: Common Garden Snail, Maritime Gardensnail or Vineyard snail

Thank you Mike Burrell, Kevin Huang & Dr Kevin Bonham AM for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6 across.
These are easily confused with another introduced snail, the White Italian Snail (Theba pisana). The centre hole (the umbilicus) is covered, or nearly covered, with T. pisana. So a photo of the umbilicus is requred for definate identification. It was how we were able to id these specimens.
Matt Parr from iNaturalist says that T. pisana has a flatter top/spire and more inflated shell than Cernuella virgata. Thanks Matt

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)