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White lipped snail

Capea hortensis

Description:

fully healed snail house

Notes:

inventory of a snail cementary

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2 Comments

monika.antoni
monika.antoni 11 years ago

the dark spots on the lower house is soil i wasn't able to wash out, the yellow colour that seems to be a spot was actually the snails real colour.
as i understand it, snails use to chew on empty houses of "former" snails because they need a calcium source for building up theirs, and as it looks like, the topp one has been chewed on a lot. i have also a spotting of a different colour-morphing of capea hortensis with allmost the same drawing (thus, same or close population) where you can see this "bleaching" effect even better.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

looks interesting!Can you explain your spotting a little?

monika.antoni
Spotted by
monika.antoni

Gemeinde Großkrut, Niederösterreich, Austria

Spotted on Aug 4, 2012
Submitted on Aug 15, 2012

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