Southern California shoulderband
Helminthoglypta tudiculata
The Southern California shoulderband is a land snail that carries a round shell on its back. It breathes air, just like you, and glides along on one big slimy foot. It lives only in the United States.
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
Only in the United States, in southern California
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Wash your hands after touching a snail, like after touching any wild animal.
What does it eat?
Like most land snails, it nibbles on plants with a rough tongue.
How fast is it?
Southern California shoulderband about 0.03 km/h (0.02 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
When two of these snails meet to have babies, they poke each other with tiny pointed darts called love darts.
2
It has a lung inside its body and breathes air, so it lives on land and not in water.
3
Its eyes sit on the tips of its two long feelers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Southern California shoulderband
?Where does the Southern California shoulderband live?
Only in the United States, in southern California.
?Is the Southern California shoulderband dangerous?
No. It is a harmless snail. Just wash your hands after touching it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Helminthoglypta tudiculata
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Helminthoglyptidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Helminthoglyptidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Southern shoulderband
Where the facts come from
- Helminthoglypta tudiculata (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 (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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