Garden Snail
Ventral, "foot"
Coastal Area
White Italian Snail
S1, profile
 
                      
White Italian Snail (Theba pisana)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Molluscs (Mollusca) - Gastropods, Slugs, And Snails (Gastropoda)
Order: Land Snails & Slugs (Stylommatophora)
Family: Typical Snail (Helicidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: White Italian Snail (Theba pisana)
This Photo:     🔍S1, dorsal🔎

Thank you Dr Kevin Bonham AM for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Seen in Coastal Areas
~18mm across.
These are easily confused with another introduced snail, the Common White Snail (Cernuella virgata). The centre hole (the umbilicus) is covered, or nearly covered, here.
Kevin said "Theba - partly closed umbilicus, this colour pattern is very characteristic of Theba and also spiral micro-sculpture (absent on Cernuella) just visible in some images."

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)