White-lipped Snail – 5/6/26

Observer: Paul Lauenstein

Observation Date: 5/6/26

Observation Time: 8:10 a.m.

Observation Location: Gavins Pond Road

Common Name: White-lipped Snail

Scientific Name: Cepaea hortensis

Comments: This snail was crawling on the underside of our bulkhead.

The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The only other species in the genus is Cepaea nemoralis.

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