Summary ²

Cornu aspersum, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail. As such it is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, which include the most commonly familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. In English texts it was classified under the name Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the prevailing classification now places it in the genus Cornu.

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1. (c) Erik Veldhuis; Modified by Tom Meijer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helix_aspersa-Nl2A.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_aspersa

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