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Thessalian Snail
Helix thessalica
Helix thessalica is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to Europe. It is externally similar to Helix pomatia, but has a dark grey penis and vagina. The species has been long considered synonymous with H. pomatia.
From the article Helix thessalica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The type locality lies in Thessaly in Greece, where are the southernmost occurrences in Ossa and Pelion. The species is the distributed in northern Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Kosovo, southern and central Serbia and in the Romanian Carpathians. A small part of the distribution range lies in the Western Carpathians (central Slovakia, Bükk in Hungary), in Czechia it lives a restricted area in the valleys of Jihlava and Oslava. East of the Carpathians, H. thessalica lives in Moldova, Ukraine (scattered from the Podolian Upland up to Kharkiv) and Russia (Belgorod oblast near Valuyki, possibly introduced population is known from Ulyanovsk).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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 910258.