Eobania vermiculata

Eobania vermiculata also known as Helix vermiculata, common name the "chocolate-band snail" is a species of large, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails or typical snails.

Eobania vermiculata
Two shells of the species showing apical and apertural views
An unusually dark, subadult live individual of Eobania vermiculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Eobania
Species:
E. vermiculata
Binomial name
Eobania vermiculata
Synonyms

Helix vermiculata O. F. Müller, 1774

Eobania vermiculata is the type species of the genus Eobania.

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