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Cepaea nemoralis
| Lemon or Grove snail Cepaea nemoralis | |
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| Cepaea nemoralis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Cepaea |
| Species: | C. nemoralis
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| Cepaea nemoralis | |
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The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc.[3]
It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America.
- Subspecies
- Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835)[4]
- Cepaea nemoralis nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the genus Cepaea.[5] It is used as a model organism in ecological genetics, including in citizen science projects.[6][7]
- ^ 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 28 December 2013.
- ^ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
- ^ "Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "Cepaea Held, 1838". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Silvertown2011was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Kerstes, N.A.G.; Breeschoten, T.; Kalkman, V.J.; Schilthuizen, M. (19 July 2019). "Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science". Communications Biology. 2 (1): 264. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0511-6. PMC 6642149. PMID 31341963.
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