Snails in your neighborhood?

[tsrebel]

Since there are members on this forum from a lot of different places, I thought it would be interesting to know what species you can find in your garden or on a short walk from home.

Here in Oslo, Norway, I can find Cepaea hortensis, C. nemoralis and Arianta arbustorum. If I take a short trip by bus, I can find Helix pomatia as well.
There are several smaller species around here, but I'm onl interested in snails that grow more than 2cm, so I don't notice the smaller ones.

[gunshotglitter]

I live in south-east France, I have seen Cepaea nemoralis, Cepaea hortensis and Helix aspersa around the house.
I haven't yet ventured to the woods though, I'll update the list if I find some more.

[tsrebel]

I went snail hunting in southern France once and found lots of different species. The one I became most excited about was Haplotrema concavum, a carnivorous snail that lives mostly under ground, but may surface when it rains.
Lucky you!

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[oscar101]

I live in England and can easily find Helix Aspersa, Capaea Nemoralis, Capaea Hortensis, Oxychilius Alliarius, Trochulus Striolata, Discus Ruderatus

[CrypticDoll]

Arianta arbustorums, Fruticicola fruticum can be found here. And about 20 km away is located "Helix pomatia -place".

[amilynn]

Just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, I've only seen Capaea Nemoralis. Some of the snails we've caught look big enough to be adults without the dark lip, but they've all developed it after a few weeks.

[shaydeesnail]

On the street that I live on there are hardly any snails, just the odd Helix aspersa and once I found a couple of tiny Cochlicopa lubrica and Discus rotundatus.
Less than 5 minutes from my house there is a field with some woods behind it, there are very few snails in the field and I presume this is because the river flowing through it floods a few times every year. However in the woods and high up in some of the trees in the field I have found LOTS of Cepaea hortensis and nemoralis, there is also Helix aspersa, Oxychilus, Copse snails and Kentish snails, I think I may have seen some Trochulus Striolata.
About 5 miles away where my grandma lives there are hundreds of snails in her garden! A complete contrast to mine. I have seen Helix aspersa, Cepaea nemoralis, Lauria cylindracea, Oxychilus, and Discus rotundatus.
I live in the midlands in England.

[inky]

In South Australia we have Helix aspersa mainly. At my school however, we have the odd Cernuella virgata yet I can hardly take them home because the teachers are all "NO TOUCHING SNAILS BECAUSE THEY HAVE DISEASE AND KIDS DIE FROM IT RAHRAHRAH" so it's really hard to get them. I've had two, one baby and one adult. I released them though.

[snailsrule18]

In NY we have C.nemoralis, C.hortensis, and probably Helix aspersa, although I haven't seen any yet. I've also found some sort of tiny rams horn snails, and I have no idea what species they are.

[gunshotglitter]

Update, apart from Cepaeas and aspersas I've found Helix pomatia and Pomatias elegans.

I visited my parents in Croatia this summer and found Cepaea nemoralis and vindobonensis, Helix lucorum and Cernuella neglecta. I brought Cernuellas with me, along as a few Cepaeas (they're a lot more yellow that these here in france), all the others were empty shells since it didn't rain enough to catch a live one XD.

[leila]

here in washington, usa ive found alllogona townsendiana (oregon forestsnail), monadenia fidelis (pacific sideband), haplotrema vancouverense (robust lacetooth), and various members of the oxychilus family (glass snails) all behind my house and supposedly we also have cepaea nermoralis (grove snail), cryptomastix hendersoni (very rarely tho) and germana (the columbian and pygmy oregonians) as well as vespericola columbiana (northwest hesperian) and probably more that i havnt reseached yet

and as for slugs ive found ariolimax columiana (pacific banana slug), limax maximus (one siting) (leopard slug) and plentyyyyy of arions (an invasive cannibalistic species) and on top of that all kinds of smaller slugs that i havnt been able to identify.