AnimalsA snail carries a coiled shell and glides on a single muscular foot over a trail of slime. Its eyes are on the tips of its longer pair of tentacles. In dry weather it seals itself inside its shell.
Quick facts
- Scientific name
- Cornu aspersum
- Group
- Invertebrates
- Diet
- Herbivore (eats plants)
- Lives in
- Europe, and many other countries
- Habitat
- Gardens and damp places
- A young one is called
- hatchling
- A group is called
- walk or rout
- Conservation status
- No category in our data
How it is classified
Scientists sort living things into groups within groups. Reading down, each step is a smaller group, ending with the species itself.
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Mollusca
- Class Gastropoda
- Order Stylommatophora
- Family Helicidae
- Genus Cornu
- Species Cornu aspersum
Classification follows the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Other reference works arrange some groups differently. How classification works.
Is it in danger?
No Red List category for the garden snail was found in our data source. What the categories mean.