Cantareus apertus

Cantareus apertus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Genus:	Cantareus
Species:	C. apertus
Binomial name
	Cantareus apertus; (Born, 1778)
Synonyms
	Cornu apertus (Born, 1778) (superseded generic combination); Helix (Cantareus) apertus (Born, 1778); Helix aperta Born, 1778 (original combination); Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801 (junior synonym);

Cantareus apertus,^[2] commonly known as the green garden snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

^ Born I. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. pp. [1–40], 1–458, [1–82]. Vindobonae.
^ For those who regard Cornu as available and who classify Helix apertus and Helix aspersa in the same genus and do not like to use Helix for them, the name should be Cornu apertum, but this combination has very rarely been used.