Topic summary
Garden snail
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cornu aspersum.
Cornu aspersum (syn. Helix aspersa, Cryptomphalus aspersus), known by the common namegarden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may be the most widely known. It was classified under the name Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the prevailing classification now places it in the genus Cornu.