Arianta arbustorum

Taxobox
name = "Arianta arbustorum"

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image_width = 225px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Helicidae
genus = "Arianta"
species = "A. arbustorum"
binomial = "Arianta arbustorum"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

"Arianta arbustorum" is a medium-sized species of land snail, sometimes known as the "copse snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.

This species of snail makes and uses calcareous love darts.

ubspecies

* "Arianta arbustorum alpicola"
* "Arianta arbustorum arbustorum"
* "Arianta arbustorum canigonensis"
* "Arianta arbustorum picea"
* "Arianta arbustorum pseudorudis"
* "Arianta arbustorum repellini"
* "Arianta arbustorum styriaca"
* "Arianta arbustorum vareliensis"

Distribution

This species is native to Europe, and can be found at least in the Netherlands [nl icon [http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/kaarten-per-soort/landmollusken/wetenschappelijk/arianta-arbustorum/ Arianta arbustorum — Anemoon ] ] , Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, the British Isles, and other countries. In Finland, it has become so common in the Porvoo region east of Helsinki, that it is locally called the "Porvoo snail".

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