Cepaea nemoralis
| Lemon or Grove snail Cepaea nemoralis | |
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| Cepaea nemoralis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Cepaea |
| Species: | C. nemoralis |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.
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)
- Cepaea nemoralis nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the genus Cepaea. It is used as a model organism in ecological genetics, including in citizen science projects.