White-lipped Snail (Cepaea hortensis)

White-lipped Snail, a reference photo — Photo: AnemoneProjectors (talk) · CC BY-SA 2.0 (licence)

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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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of White-lipped Snail being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Cepaea nemoralis

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Cepaea
Species: Cepaea hortensis

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