Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Snail - Hygromia?
Posted by ChrisR on 24-04-2008 00:57
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Does anyone here know about snails? I found this one in my garden in southern England today (23/4/2008). It is 1cm across and roughly fits
Hygromia limbata but I don't know snails well enough to be sure. When
Kerney & Cameron was written it was only known from scattered colonies in southern England (Wiltshire & Devon) but I wonder if it has spread?
Posted by ChrisR on 24-04-2008 00:58
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Posted by ChrisR on 24-04-2008 00:58
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Posted by diphascon on 24-04-2008 12:27
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Hello Chris,
Hygromia alright, but I'd vote for H. cinctella, a mediterranean species that has been spreading very successfully over Western Europe during the last fifteen years or so.
cheers - martin
Posted by ChrisR on 24-04-2008 22:30
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Thansk for that - I guessed
cinctella first but then changed my mind! :) I just had word back from Steve Gregory in Oxford and he agreed with
H.cinctella and he has recorded it in Oxford and another town close to me.