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Lapidary Snail
Helicigona lapicida
Helicigona lapicida is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Subspecies
From the article Helicigona lapicida on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Helicigona lapicida is known to feed selectively on certain lichens inhabiting rocky substrates, including the crustose lichen species Verrucaria nigrescens.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 102393.