Trochulus striolatus

Trochulus striolatus
Plate accompanying the original description by Carl Pfeiffer Helix striolatus is figure 8
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Trochulus
Species:	T. striolatus
Binomial name
Trochulus striolatus (Pfeiffer, 1828)
Synonyms
Trichia striolata

Trochulus striolatus, previously known as Trichia striolata, common name the "strawberry snail," is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.

This species of snail uses love darts before mating.

Description

The 11–15 mm. shell is globular with a depressed, low, conical spire. The whorls are convex, with quite deep sutures. The last whorl is angled on the periphery. The colour is whitish to yellow-brown or red-brown with irregular growth lines and often a pale band on the angled periphery. The adult shell is hairless but bears scattered coarse hairs when juvenile.

Distribution

This snail is native to northwestern Europe, occurring in:

• British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
• Netherlands
• Slovakia

The distribution of the subspecies Trochulus striolatus danubialis is Danubian.

External links

• Trochulus striolatus at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
• Taxonomy at: [1]
• UK Nature image of a live snail of this species