Cepaea nemoralis
Description of the model:
The model is made of high quality epoxy resin and coloured using non-fade paint and varnish. We use original shells. Because the shell can varies regionally in colour and banding we offer to assemble the model with your collected shell.
Dimensions
bodylength: 45 mm
Price
136,50 €
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Model views Cepaea nemoralis
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
L.H. side view of the life-size model.
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
close-up of the life-size model.
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
Two of 89 possible varieties. Life-size models.
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
R.H. side view of the life-size model.
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
Overhead view of the life-size model.
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
The life-size model as special design: on the desired pedestal
Cepaea nemoralis - Banded Wood Snail
The life-size model as special design: on the desired pedestal with a taxidermied wood shrew.
Profile Cepaea nemoralis
Habitat
Shrubs and open woods in plains and highlands, in cultivated habitats, in gardens and at road margins, locally abundant.
Sources
Europe from Ireland, S Portugal and central Spain to SW Hungary and Bosnia, in Italy to Lucania, in the north to S Sweden, in the E to NW Poland, Latvia, Kaliningrad, Estonia (Hiiumaa island). Introduced overseas.
Further Informations
Unique in the European fauna Cepaea nemoralis and Cepaea hortensis show a polymorphism of the shell. Colour and banding of the shell differs extremly within one population. Due to that, we offer to assemble a shell which you found in your region. Please send us a shell about 19 mm diameter.