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Bush snail

Fruticicola fruticum

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 517, February 382, March 598, April 941, May 1,357, June 1,480, July 1,583, August 1,362, September 1,000, October 746, November 408, December 319.
United States10,691
Alaska10,691
Russia3,899
Moscow Oblast870
Ukraine739
Germany583
Kursk Oblast363
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast340
Austria323
Moscow314

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Traits

Physical

  • Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumMolluscs · Mollusca
ClassGastropods · Gastropoda
OrderCommon Land Snails and Slugs · Stylommatophora
FamilyCamaenidae
GenusFruticicola

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