"Cepaea Vindobonensis" - A Couple of Pet Snails (2 pcs)
Cepaea Vindobonensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae. The average snail size is about 0.8 inch or 20 mm.
Why are snails the best pets?
It is easy to care for pets
Great pets for kids and family
No noise and harsh movements
Low cost keeping
Non allergic pets
Entire Carpathian region, eastern Alps, Balkans to Greece (Thessalía) and N Black Sea region, Moldavia, Crimea, N Caucasus, in the north to Sachsen and Poland to the Baltic Sea, isolated at Donaustauf near Regensburg
Shell whitish or dull yellow, with up to 5 colour bands, the upper two are usually weak, 5.5-6 whorls, aperture very oblique, margin brown at the columella to almost white near the suture, umbilicus closed.
Differs from the other Cepaea species in its larger size and a more prominently ribbed shell. Colour less intensive than in C. nemoralis.Size: 17-21 x 20-25 mm
Among shrubs, in open lands and rocky slopes, plains and warm hills, only occasionally in human settlements, in Poland mostly at S exposed and weakly vegetated valley slopes. In S Bulgaria up to 1600 m.
Life span perhaps around 3 years.
