Nutritional Freshwater Life
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Helix sp.
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Common name: Common brown snail.
Distribution: Native to Europe and the
regions around the Mediterranean Sea.
Habitat: Native to freshwater habitats;
introduced throughout the world.
Description: The adult of this unidentified species bears a hard, thin calcareous  shell of 25–40  mm in diameter
and 25–35  mm in height, with four
or five whorls. The shell is variable in
color and shade but generally is dark
brown, brownish golden, or chestnut
with yellow stripes, flecks, or streaks
(characteristically interrupted brown
color bands). The aperture is large and
characteristically oblique. The body is
soft and slimy, brownish gray. It has
no operculum; during dry or cold
weather it seals the aperture of the
shell with a thin membrane of dried
mucus.
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition (% WW)
Moisture Ash Protein Fat CHO a Fiber
83.2
1.036 8.640 0.571 6.548 0.0035
a Carbohydrate.
Minerals (mg/100 g DM)
Ca
P
Fe
Na
K
80.757
60.447 19.181 83.954 60.447
Source: Data from Baby et al. (2010).
Anisus convexiusculus Hutton 1849
Order: Basommatophora
Family: Planorbida
Common name: Ram’s horn snail.