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title: "Eastern Whitelip"
description: "Neohelix albolabris — Altri animali. Neohelix albolabris is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/eastern-whitelip
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eastern Whitelip

> Neohelix albolabris — Altri animali. Neohelix albolabris is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.

- Scientific name: *Neohelix albolabris*
- Category: `other` (Altri animali)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 14509
- Wikidata: [Q3075613](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3075613)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83794](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83794)

## Names

- en: Eastern Whitelip
- fr: Escargot à lèvre blanche

## Countries with the most observations

US (1594), CA (346)

## Summary

Neohelix albolabris is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.
Alternate names for Neohelix albolabris are Helix albolabris and Triodopsis albolabris.  It is the first land snail to be named by an American-born naturalist, Thomas Say in 1817.
Neohelix albolabris is one of the largest native land snails in North America.  Its range extends from Maine to Georgia and west to the Mississippi River.  In the northern part of this range some specimens may grow to have shells 30mm in diameter.  In the southern part of the range, some specimens grow to 40…

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

## Photo

![Eastern Whitelip](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eastern-whitelip/medium.jpg)

Photo: jeffcherry · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57684340

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eastern-whitelip?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).