![]() | White Italian Snail S1, dorsal | White Italian Snail S1, Umbilicus | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Molluscs (Mollusca) - Gastropods, Slugs, And Snails (Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Land Snails & Slugs (Stylommatophora) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Typical Snail (Helicidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | White Italian Snail (Theba pisana)This Photo: | 🔍S1, profile🔎 | Thank you Dr Kevin Bonham AM for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Seen in Coastal Areas ~18mm across. These are easily confused with another introduced snail, the Common White Snail (Cernuella virgata). The centre hole (the umbilicus) is covered, or nearly covered, here. Kevin said "Theba - partly closed umbilicus, this colour pattern is very characteristic of Theba and also spiral micro-sculpture (absent on Cernuella) just visible in some images."
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