Species Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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). —
  Giusti, F., Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. 1996. The non-marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monograph Torino, Italy : Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino Vol. 15 pp. 607.
• 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.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Crop, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Grazer, gardens.

 

General References

Bailey, E.R. 1989. Daily cycles of feeding and locomotion in Helix aspersa. Haliotis 19: 23-31

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [62-68]

Chung, D.T.D. 1987. Courtship and dart shooting behaviour of the land snail Helix aspersa. Venus 30(1): 24-39

Landolfa, M.A., Green, D.M. & Chase, R. 2001. Dart shooting influences paternal reproductive success in the snail Helix aspersa (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). Behavioral Ecology 12: 773-777

Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Academy of Natural Sciences Philadadelphia, Monograph 2(2): 521-1113 (anatomy)

Rogers, W. & Chase, R. 2001. Dart receipt promotes sperm storage in the garden snail Helix aspersa. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 122-127

Taylor, J.W. 1914. Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles (Zonitidae, Endodontidae, Helicidae). Leeds : Taylor Bros 522 pp. (anatomy, ecology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022	HELICINA	06-May-2025	MODIFIED
25-May-2012	HELICOIDEA	25-May-2012	MOVED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)