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title: "Caracol-riscado"
description: "Cepaea nemoralis — Outros animais. Cepaea nemoralis, the grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/brown-lipped-snail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Caracol-riscado

> Cepaea nemoralis — Outros animais. Cepaea nemoralis, the grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc.

- Scientific name: *Cepaea nemoralis*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `urban` (Cidades e jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 107081
- Wikidata: [Q114893](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114893)
- iNaturalist taxon: [48586](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48586)

## Names

- en: Brown-lipped Snail
- de: Hain-Bänderschnecke
- es: Caracol moro
- fr: Escargot des bois
- nl: Gewone tuinslak
- pt: Caracol-riscado
- pl: Wstężyk gajowy

## Countries with the most observations

CA (22417), US (14461), DE (12502), GB (12032), PL (5798), FR (5548), DK (3379), AT (2522), IT (2233), NL (2099), ES (1821), CZ (1435)

## Summary

Cepaea nemoralis, the grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. Cepaea nemoralis is the type species of the genus Cepaea.
The species is one of the most common large land snails in Europe and has been introduced to North America. It is used as a model organism in ecological genetics, including in citizen science projects.

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

## Photo

![Caracol-riscado](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-lipped-snail/medium.jpg)

Photo: tasty_y · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162647097

## Machine access

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