THE LOVELY LITTLE "CHEESE SNAIL" - HELICODONTA OBVOLUTA - Hive Stock Images

It's sometimes called "cheese snail" because of the shell ...

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... its shape resembles a bit the wheel of cheese.

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This shell has also another pretty peculiar characteristic ...

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... it's slightly hairy.

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It's not uncommon in the forest of the inland of this peninsula where I live ... but is hard to casually encounter because spends most of its time inside the rotting tree trunks. I put the snail out of there, on a piece of white paper I brought with me, for this photo session ... and then I returned him in his trunk.

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Hope you'll find some use case for this strange little snail :) As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work.

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Here is a bonus negative picture ... you can always turn it into positive in Photoshop :)

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