White Italian Snail: S1, dorsal

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."

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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