Pelan tapi pasti (Slow & Steady)
Garden Snail
Cornu aspersum
- umum
- 2 km/h
- Pemula
- Belum dievaluasi
Slow and steady wins the... actually, it just arrives really, really late. But it arrives!
- Populasi
- Abundant and globally widespread; no formal population estimate exists (extremely common, often treated as an agricultural/horticultural pest rather than a conservation concern)
- Habitat
- Gardens, hedgerows, cultivated fields, woodland edges, coastal dunes, and other disturbed or vegetated habitats with damp shelter and calcium-rich soil for shell-building
- Fakta menarik
- During mating, garden snails are reciprocal hermaphrodites that each fire a hardened, calcite "love dart" into their partner's body before exchanging sperm — a courtship behavior unique to this snail family.
- Sebaran
- Native to the Mediterranean Basin (northwest Africa, Iberia, eastwards to Asia Minor and Egypt, north to Britain); widely introduced and naturalized on most continents including North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and parts of Asia
- Makanan
- Herbivorous/detritivorous: leaves, stems, flowers, fruit trees, vegetable crops, and decaying plant matter; also grazes algae and fungi, and consumes soil, bark, or eggshells as calcium sources for shell growth
- Ukuran
- 0,04 m
- Masa hidup
- 2 tahun
