Species Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774)

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Species Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774)

Common Garden Snail

Helix aspersa Müller, O.F. 1774. Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusorium, Helminthicorum, et Testaceorum, non marinorum, Succincta Historia. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber Vol. 2 xxvi 214 pp. [59].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, locality unknown.
Secondary source:
Pomeroy, D.E. & Laws, H.M. 1967. The distribution of introduced snails in South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 483-494 [484]; Richardson, L. 1980. Helicidae: Catalogue of species. Tryonia 3: 1-697 [323].

Generic Combinations

Cantareus aspersa (Müller, 1774).
Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Throughout most of southern and eastern Australia as far north as the Atherton Tablelands, NE Qld. Native to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Introduced unintentionally with garden plants and freight and deliberately as a food snail

Introduced from N Europe.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)