Helix lucorum
| Helix lucorum | |
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| live specimen of Helix lucorum | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicinae |
| Tribe: | Helicini |
| Genus: | Helix |
| Subgenus: | Helix |
| Species: | H. lucorum |
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Helix lucorum Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Helix lucorum is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail or escargot, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Description
The shell of Helix lucorum
This species of snail makes and uses love darts.
Adult snails weight about 20-25 g.[3]
Distribution
Europe[2]
- Eastern Europe - East region of Black sea - Georgia|[4]
- Southern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Sardinia, Yugoslavia, Turkey
- Western Europe - France (introduced)
Ecology
The size of the egg is 4.4 mm.[7] 2–3 months old juvenile snails weight 0.5-0.9 g.[3]
References
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^ IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
. Downloaded on 16 April 2009. - ^ a b http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677 cited 5 May 2007
- ^ a b Danilova A.B. & Grinkevich L. N. (2012). "Failure of Long-Term Memory Formation in Juvenile Snails Is Determined by Acetylation Status of Histone H3 and Can Be Improved by NaB Treatment". PLoS ONE 7(7): e41828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041828.
- ^ Mumladze. L. 2013. Shell size differences in Helix lucorum Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) between natural and urban environments. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 37: 1-6.
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ^ Commonwealth of Australia. 2002 (April) Citrus Imports from the Arab Republic of Egypt. A Review Under Existing Import Conditions for Citrus from Israel. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia. Caption: Gastropods, page 12 and Appendix 2.
- ^ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
External links
- http://szmn.sbras.ru/picts/Mollusca/Helix_lucorum.htm
- http://www.jaxshells.org/818d.htm
- http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677
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