Cepaea nemoralis

Lemon or Grove snail
Cepaea nemoralis
Cepaea nemoralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Cepaea
Species:
C. nemoralis
Binomial name
Cepaea nemoralis
Synonyms
  • Cepaea (Cepaea) nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Helix nemoralis Linnaeus, 1758

The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc.[3]

It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America.

Subspecies
  • Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835)[4]
  • Cepaea nemoralis nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the genus Cepaea.[5] It is used as a model organism in ecological genetics, including in citizen science projects.[6][7]

  1. ^ 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 28 December 2013.
  2. ^ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
  3. ^ "Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Cepaea Held, 1838". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Silvertown2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Kerstes, N.A.G.; Breeschoten, T.; Kalkman, V.J.; Schilthuizen, M. (19 July 2019). "Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science". Communications Biology. 2 (1): 264. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0511-6. PMC 6642149. PMID 31341963.

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