Helix aperta

Taxobox
name = "Helix aperta"


image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Helicidae
genus = "Helix"
species = "H. aperta"
binomial = "Helix aperta"
binomial_authority = Born, 1778

"Helix aperta", also known as "Cantareus aperta", and commonly known as the green snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

This species of snail makes and uses love darts.

Distribution

This species is native to Europe primarily near the Mediterranean Sea, and also North Africa. It has also been introduced to other areas, including Australia.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 8 May 2007.]

* western Australia - nonindegenous [ [http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_s/b_1880.htm 2. Helix aperta (Born) ] ]

References

External links

* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1382