White Italian Snail

Theba pisana

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia ›Phylum: Mollusca ›Class: Gastropoda ›Order: Stylommatophora ›Family: Helicidae ›Genus: Theba

About

Theba pisana, common names the white garden snail, sand hill snail, white Italian snail, Mediterranean coastal snail, and simply just the Mediterranean snail, is an edible species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.