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Garden Snail

Helix Aspersa

Description:

Helix aspersa, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail, a pulmonate gastropod that is one of the best-known of all terrestrial molluscs.

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5 Comments

naross
naross 10 years ago

An excellent photo and series, Lisa. Beautiful perspective of this fellow.

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

I've moved this lovely snail series from the Arthropod category to the Other category for you. Arthropods have exoskeletons and jointed limbs.

LisaGrant
LisaGrant 12 years ago

Thanks for the nice comments, thankfully they move and slowly so are an easy subject to catch!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

I must echo Claire, Super Shots!

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

super shots!!!

LisaGrant
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LisaGrant

Ireland

Spotted on Jul 8, 2011
Submitted on Jul 9, 2011

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