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Helix aspersa

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Noun1.Helix aspersa - serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
brown snail
genus Helix, Helix - type genus of the family Helicidae
garden snail - any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests


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This was how Fernando Bascunan felt when he started breeding the Chilean brown garden snail Helix aspersa Muller in 1980 to ship to Europe for food.
Big ideas: known for its commodities, Latin America doesn't fall ... by Harris, Paul / Latin Trade
Specimens of the land snail Helix aspersa were caged in five sites in the urban area of Ancona, Italy.
Use of the land snail helix aspersa as sentinel organism for ... by Piva, Francesco / Environmental Health Perspectives
The researchers took extracts of the glands that make the mucus in Helix aspersa and applied them to the female genitalia of the hermaphroditic snails.
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