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| Two live individuals of Cochlostoma septemspirale in France | |
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| Subgenus: | Cochlostoma |
| Species: | C. septemspirale |
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| Cochlostoma septemspirale (Razoumowsky, 1789) [2] | |
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Cochlostoma septemspirale is a species of a land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlostomatidae.
The distribution of Cochlostoma septemspirale is southern Europe from the Pyrenees to south Germany and the central Balkans. [4]
Cochlostoma septemspirale is the most widely distributed Cochlostoma species. [4]
The shell is light greyish brown with 3 rows of reddish brown spots. [4] It has 6-8 regular ribs/mm and 7-10 convex whorls. [4] The aperture is inside whitish. [4] There is no significant sexual dimorphism on the shell. [4]
The width of the shell is 3.2-4.4 mm. [4] The height of the shell is 6.7-10.2 mm. [4]
The animal is medium-sized (5-6.5 mm long), greyish with weak brownish hue. [4]
Cochlostoma septemspirale lives in forest habitats, rocks, rock rubble, walls and grassy slopes, up to 2100 m. [4]
It feeds on disintegrating plant substrate, sometimes also on the algae film growing on limestone. [4]
The animal is slow, not very active, and very shy. However the animal will emerge when put onto a cold object. [4] It is active only in wet weather, and the operculum is closed when the soil is dry. [4] This snail climbs trees up to 2 m during very wet weather conditions. [4] It hibernates between stones, under leaves and grasses; activity seems to cease when temperatures go below 6-7 °C. [4]
Eggs (diameter 1.0-1.1 mm, occasionally down to 0.6 mm) are laid from April to October, mainly during May to June, about 1 cm below the surface. [4] The eggs are covered by the female with faeces and mucus. They are laid in clutches of up to 10 eggs. [4] Juveniles hatch after 45–60 days, and the full adult shell size is reached after roughly 1 year. [4]
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