August 13, 2016 Cepaea Diversity Discovery

[Cashell]

I've been to this new path once on a dry, sunny day. The second time I came back here was on the date listed in the title after a heavy downpour, and boy oh boy was it absolutely littered with hundreds of cepeaea nemoralis! In many wicked colours too! I didn't take pictures of them in the wild this time around, like what I did last year in a different location, but I took plenty of pictures of them when I got home after washing them. I was hoping I would find other species like xerolenta obvia or the elusive arianta arbustorum, but they were nowhere to be seen in this location.



















As such, I've also updated my shop to reflect the increased availability for all colours. No more "limited" for now!

[etana]

Talk about Cepaea polymorphism! Great find!

[starsareintherose]

I think they'are all Cepaea (Cepaea) nemoralis . In China they're sold in a high price , and the colour is actually varity . They 'are very nice.

[Cashell]

Aug 15, 2016 20:07:01 GMT etana said:

Talk about Cepaea polymorphism! Great find!

Yep, it's incredible!

Aug 16, 2016 0:53:32 GMT starsareintherose said:

I think they'are all Cepaea (Cepaea) nemoralis . In China they're sold in a high price , and the colour is actually varity . They 'are very nice.

Never knew that you could find them in China!

[starsareintherose]

Aug 16, 2016 4:22:49 GMT Cashell said:

Aug 15, 2016 20:07:01 GMT etana said:

Talk about Cepaea polymorphism! Great find!

Yep, it's incredible!

Aug 16, 2016 0:53:32 GMT starsareintherose said:

I think they'are all Cepaea (Cepaea) nemoralis . In China they're sold in a high price , and the colour is actually varity . They 'are very nice.

Never knew that you could find them in China!

In the snail store of Hobgkong .:-P

[gastropod]

Wow I am new to snail keeping and these bandits are beautiful. Congratulation on discovering your Garden of Snail Eden!👍👍😄

Which country are you locate in?

[Cashell]

Yes, it was really quite the enjoyable experience. This would happen to be America's northern neighbour: Canada! 🍁

[Liguus]

Nice job! The brownish/purple ones look great! I've never seen Cepaea quite like that color before. I also like the orange shelled ones with the single stripe, that might be my favorite Cepaea form.

[minineko]

Nice. I've yet to find the all-yellow morph in c. nemoralis anywhere...

But.. have you ever found one with THREE stripes?

Also if you got a kitchen scale... weigh the biggest one, we're shooting for 6.6g in the records section.

[Cashell]

Aug 17, 2016 22:45:25 GMT Liguus said:

Nice job! The brownish/purple ones look great! I've never seen Cepaea quite like that color before. I also like the orange shelled ones with the single stripe, that might be my favorite Cepaea form.

Brown is normally quite hard to find in my region, but not in this spot!

Aug 18, 2016 2:54:06 GMT minineko said:

Nice. I've yet to find the all-yellow morph in c. nemoralis anywhere...

But.. have you ever found one with THREE stripes?

Also if you got a kitchen scale... weigh the biggest one, we're shooting for 6.6g in the records section.

That's odd, I thought I've seen you with a zero-banded yellow morph in one of your posts before? Or maybe it was a cepaea hortensis? As for the three banded morphs, I may have possibly ran into them before, but I don't really pay much attention to the band count on yellow morphs. Thankfully, I do keep a postal scale handy to weigh my parcels, so I'll try to weigh some of the fattest snails I've caught when I get the time and see how they compare to my previous 4g lightweights.

[witchpig]

I own one with 4 stripes

[minineko]

Aug 18, 2016 21:38:20 GMT Cashell said:

That's odd, I thought I've seen you with a zero-banded yellow morph in one of your posts before? Or maybe it was a cepaea hortensis? As for the three banded morphs, I may have possibly ran into them before, but I don't really pay much attention to the band count on yellow morphs. Thankfully, I do keep a postal scale handy to weigh my parcels, so I'll try to weigh some of the fattest snails I've caught when I get the time and see how they compare to my previous 4g lightweights.

Yeah, we have hortensis with zero bands, never seen the nemoralis yet!

The three one is quite odd looking, there's a huge gap! I will try and get a decent photo. Need to get a pic of the weird flat one I hatched too!

[minineko]

[Cashell]

Interesting! I have seen these on occasion in the wild, but it's not too often that I run into them. Great photo.

[minineko]

Don't they eat those paper towels?

[Cashell]

They certainly do! It's convenient to use as a temporary substrate while you're cleaning out their vivariums or bathing them, but it ends up with holes after a cleaning session.