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Roman Snail

Helix pomatia

Roman Snail
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Helix pomatia has a large rounded shell, cream-colored with faint brown bands. Its native range is in central and southeastern Europe, and it lives in woods, hedgerows, and tall vegetation.[2]

Appearance

Its rounded shell is 30–50 mm wide and high, cream-colored with faint brown bands. The tentacles are gray.[2]

Life

It lives in woods, hedgerows, and tall herbaceous vegetation, favoring calcium-rich soils over limestone or chalk.[2]

In the Lesser Poland samples, shell and soil metal concentrations varied by locality. Soil concentrations were highest in Cracow: cadmium was seven times, and copper up to 123 times, the levels outside the city.[3]

Places

Native range · Central and southeastern Europe[2]

Its native range includes central and southeastern Europe.

Sources

  1. Catalogue of Life 2026-09-25 XR

    Catalogue of Life · 2026-10-13

  2. Helix pomatia

    Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Mollusks · 2026-10-25

  3. Comparative analysis of Helix pomatia L. shells found in soils with varying degrees of contamination (southern Poland)

    Geology, Geophysics and Environment (AGH University of Krakow) · 2026-10-25

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