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title: "White-lipped Snail"
description: "Cepaea hortensis — Other animals. The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-lipped-snail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-lipped Snail

> Cepaea hortensis — Other animals. The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae.

- Scientific name: *Cepaea hortensis*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 23585
- Wikidata: [Q427854](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427854)
- iNaturalist taxon: [51039](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51039)

## Names

- en: White-lipped Snail
- de: Garten-Bänderschnecke
- fr: Escargot des jardins
- nl: Witgerande tuinslak
- pl: Wstężyk ogrodowy

## Countries with the most observations

GB (6488), DE (2718), AT (2240), CA (1775), CZ (1437), FR (1119), DK (791), FI (411), NO (358), UA (300), SK (294), SE (281)

## Summary

The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The only other species in the genus is Cepaea nemoralis.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-lipped_snail

## Photo

![White-lipped Snail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-lipped-snail/medium.jpg)

Photo: tasty_y · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161637761

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-lipped-snail?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).