Cepaea Nemoralis??? Help With ID Please!

[barnaclesnail]

I need some help identifying a snail found in my area this morning. Unfortunately, the little guy was already dead, but it looks like we're going to have a downpour today so hopefully I can check the same area later on for live specimens... Anyway, this is definitely not helix lucorum, which is the species in my back garden - I was thinking possibly cepaea nemoralis???

It's very small, btw. I'm pretty sure this is an adult snail (I'll try to get another pic of it when I can actually find my ruler )

So, any guesses as to species?

[tsrebel]

Yes, it looks like an adult C. nemoralis. I'm pretty sure.
You are so lucky to have H. lucorum in your back garden!

[oscar101]

Definitly Nemoralis can vairy in size. when their lip grows black/brown, this means its fully grown. Nemoralis can stop growing from as small as 1.8cm to as large as 3cm, but most commonly stop growing between 2 and 2.5cm. and I agree with tsrebel, your very luck to have H.Lucorm in your back garden. Where do you live??

[barnaclesnail]

Thanks so much for the identification help!!! I was hoping we'd be lucky enough to have c. nemoralis here, though the pics I was finding were so different among the same species, I just wasn't sure that's what it actually was. Now I'm going to have to scout that area like an idiot, looking for snails Maybe I won't get too many stares if I go late enough at night.

BTW, I'm in the NYC area and have no idea whatsoever how this species was introduced to the area. Not even sure how long they've been here - we had loads of pollution in the area until around 5yrs ago, which is when I started to see snails and butterflies come back. But still scratching my head as to how h. lucorum came to this side of the world

[graemepryce]

Its definately C. Nemoralis. They are very abundant in most of the UK where I am.