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title: "White-lip Globe Snail"
description: "Mesodon thyroidus — Otros animales. Mesodon thyroidus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/white-lip-globe-snail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-lip Globe Snail

> Mesodon thyroidus — Otros animales. Mesodon thyroidus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

- Scientific name: *Mesodon thyroidus*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bosque)
- iNaturalist observations: 10632
- Wikidata: [Q3074281](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3074281)
- iNaturalist taxon: [133953](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/133953)

## Names

- en: White-lip Globe Snail
- fr: Escargot brun des forêts

## Countries with the most observations

US (2094), CA (105)

## Summary

Mesodon thyroidus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: William Greene Binney (1833-1909; U.S.A.), (scanned by Tim Ross) · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MesodonThyroidusExBinney.jpg

## Machine access

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