Helix lucorum

Taxobox
name = "Helix lucorum"

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image_caption = live specimen of "Helix lucorum"
image_width = 220px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Helicidae
genus = "Helix"
species = "H. lucorum"
binomial = "Helix lucorum"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

"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.

Synonyms

Numerous synonyms exist for "Helix lucorum":
* "Helix anaphora" Westerlund, 1889
* "Helix annosa" Mascarini, 1892
* "Helix atrocincta" Bourguignat, 1883
* "Helix candida" Mascarini, 1892
* "Helix elongata" Bourguignat, 1860
* "Helix nigrozonata" Bourguignat, 1883
* "Helix presbensis" Kobelt, 1905
* "Helix rypara" Bourguignat, 1883
* "Helix straminea" Briganti, 1825
* "Helix straminiformis" Bourguignat, 1876
* "Helix virago" Bourguignat, 1883
* "Helix yleobia" Bourguignat, 1883 [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677 cited 5 May 2007]

Description

This species of snail makes and uses love darts.

Distribution

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 2 April 2007.]

Europe [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677 cited 5 May 2007]

* Eastern Europe - Eastern coast of Black sea
* Southern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Sardinia, Yugoslavia
* Western Europe - France (introduced)

References

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