Fruticicola fruticum

Fruticicola fruticum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.^[1][3]

Fruticicola fruticum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Bradybaeninae
Tribe:	Bradybaenini
Genus:	Fruticicola
Species:	F. fruticum
Binomial name
Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]
Synonyms
Bradybaena (Bradybaena) fruticum (Müller, 1774) Helix fruticum Müller, 1774

Shell description

The shell of this species is globular with a deep umbilicus. The shell color is whitish or brownish.

The maximum shell dimension is about 22 millimetres (0.87 in).

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  Shell
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  The umbilicus

Distribution

Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)

• Austria^[4]
• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic - least concern (LC)^[5][6]
• Germany^[7][8]
• Great Britain - extinct^[9]
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Serbia
• Finland
• Slovakia
• Ukraine^[10]

Life cycle

The size of the egg is 1.9 millimetres (0.075 in).^[11]

This species of snail makes and uses love darts during mating.