Helix lucorum
The shell of Helix lucorum
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Pulmonata Family: Helicidae Genus: Helix Species: H. lucorum
Binomial name
Helix lucorum Linnaeus, 1758

Helix lucorum is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail or escargot, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Synonyms

Numerous synonyms exist for Helix lucorum:

• Helix anaphora Westerlund, 1889
• Helix annosa Mascarini, 1892
• Helix atrocincta Bourguignat, 1883
• Helix candida Mascarini, 1892
• Helix elongata Bourguignat, 1860
• Helix nigrozonata Bourguignat, 1883
• Helix presbensis Kobelt, 1905
• Helix rypara Bourguignat, 1883
• Helix straminea Briganti, 1825
• Helix straminiformis Bourguignat, 1876
• Helix virago Bourguignat, 1883
• Helix yleobia Bourguignat, 1883^[1]

Distribution

• Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)^[2]

Europe^[3]

• Eastern Europe - Eastern coast of Black sea
• Southern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Sardinia, Yugoslavia
• Western Europe - France (introduced), the Netherlands (introduced)

References

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Helix lucorum

External links

• http://szmn.sbras.ru/picts/Mollusca/Helix_lucorum.htm
• http://www.jaxshells.org/818d.htm
• http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677

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