Interesting page on Cepaea nemoralis

[morningcoffee]

For keepers of Cepaea nemoralis, I found this very interesting page with a lot of information about their behaviour, feeding, mating & hatchling survival rates, among other things.

I imagine quite a lot of the info also applies to Cepaea hortensis.

animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Cepaea_nemoralis/


Some things I found particularly interesting:

- they can hibernate underwater and survive there for 2-3 weeks!!

- high temperatures and low humidity inhibit snails' growth rate and egg production

- they can produce offspring from several different matings in each brood of eggs

- each egg brood consists of genetic contributions from one female parent and two male parents

- in summer they are much more likely to climb high into the trees for lower temperatures and shade than in spring and autumn

- they feel pain more during nighttime!

- they predominantly move in an upwind direction

- adult Cepaea nemoralis require sitosterol in their diet ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-Sitosterol )

[muddydragon]

WOW MC, this is a brilliant find!

They have one on Achatina fulica too: animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Achatina_fulica/

[morningcoffee]

Great! I missed the fulica page, will have a read now!

[mangoandlemon]

Great reads!

[saskia1982]

Thanks for sharing!

[etana]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[Zorst]

Great info n thanks for sharing.

Zorst

[Judith]

This is exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

[astana]

Lovely page!

[eilisnail]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[Butterflyna]

Excellent!

[ensnailed]

Thank you so much for this! Especially the part about their diet so that I can make sure they're getting the sitosterol they need. I adopted two cepaea nemoralis on October 7th, and would already love to add more.

[ensnailed]

If you're still interested in this species, I found a very interesting article on their color polymorphism!

www.nature.com/articles/hdy201274

If this is not the place to share such a resource, feel free to let me know where I could post it instead. I was unable to post it as its own thread under the "species specific" category, and it seems to go nicely with the other very thorough resource shared.