Fruticicola fruticum
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Bradybaenidae |
| Genus: | Fruticicola |
| Species: | F. fruticum |
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Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
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Fruticicola fruticum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bradybaenidae.
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).
Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)
The size of the egg is 1.9 millimetres (0.075 in).
This species of snail makes and uses love darts during mating.
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