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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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They were mainly garden snails called Helix Aspersa, which were introduced by the Romans.
'Snails taste even better than beef' by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Similar simple patterns of inheritance were later found in a number of bivalves such as Mytilus edulis, Argopecten irradians, and Fulvia mutica) (Innes & Haley 1977, Adamkewicz & Castagna 1988, Fujiwara 1995), and gastropods including Helix aspersa and Biomphalaria glabrata (De Matos 1984, Richards 1985).
A novel shell color variant of the Pacific abalone Haliotis discus ... by Liu, Xiao; Wu, Fucun; Zhao, Hongen; Zhang, Guofan; Guo, Ximing / Journal of Shellfish Research
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.
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