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Cellar Snail - Oxychilus cellarius
9-12 mm pale, translucent and glossy. Usually very pale, yellow brown. The body is pale bluish grey. Deep open umbilicus. No (garlic) smell when irritated.
Oxychilis alliaris is smaller (6-8mm) with a strong garlic smell when irritated. Oxychilis navarricus is usually a little smaller (8-10mm) but has a black mantle which shows through the shell as a dark band behind the opening. Oxychilis draparnaudi is larger (11-16mm) is only slightly opaque.
- 9-12mm
- glossy brown shell
- no garlic smell when irritated
- very flat shell with virtually no spire
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Humid and shady habitats of any kind.
All year round.
Common and widespread throughout most of Britain
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Species profile
- Common names
- Cellar Snail
- Species group:
- Slugs & Snails
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Pulmonata
- Family:
- Oxychilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 109
- First record:
- 27/07/1987 (Rundle, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 15/03/2021 (Nicholls, David)
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