Lapidary snail
Helicigona lapicida
Eats: Fungus and mouldSnails, slugs and wormsDeserts and dry placesNo legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The lapidary snail is a land snail with a grey-brown shell with reddish brown patches. Its shell has a sharp ridge running all the way round its edge. It lives in Europe and likes to crawl on rocks.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect at all, it has no legs! But kids find it on every bug hunt, so it lives in Bug Wiki too.
Lives in
Europe, especially Central Europe, on rocks
Length
2 cm (0.79 in)
the width of the shellCan it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Wash your hands after holding one, like after touching any wild animal.
What does it eat?
It eats lichens, the crusty patches that grow on rocks, and it is picky about which ones.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️needs 3 minutes to cross a dinner table
How big is Lapidary snail compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
Lapidary snail about 0.02 km/h (0.01 mph)
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The opening of its shell has a thick white lip that curls outwards.
2
Its shell is about 2 centimetres wide.
3
Like other land snails, it breathes air.
you asked
Most asked questions about Lapidary snail
?What does the lapidary snail eat?
It eats lichens that grow on rocks.
?How big is the lapidary snail?
Its shell is about 2 centimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Helicigona lapicida
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Helicidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Helicidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Helicigona lapicida (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by User:Jymm , (cropped by user:Snek01 ). Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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