Gastropods
Page Last Updated: October 24 2018
7 species
Brown-lipped Snails - shell to 2.5 cm
Family: Helicidae (Typical Snails)
Genus: Cepaea
Species: Nemoralis
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
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Updated October 14 2016
Class: Gastropoda
Also known as Banded Wood or Grove Snail - shell is
variable in colour and number of whorls but has a brown
band around the opening - similar to C. vindobonensis -
native to Europe
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White-lipped Snail - shell to 2.5 cm
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Family: Helicidae (Typical Snails)
Genus: Cepaea
Species: Hortensis
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
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Updated September 16 2012
Class: Gastropoda
Shell is variable in colour and number of whorls but has a
white band around the opening (possibly variable and is the
same species as above) - native to Europe
Great Pond Snail - shell to 5 cm
Family: Lymnaeidae (Freshwater Snails)
Genus: Lymnaea
Species: Stagnalis
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
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Updated September 16 2012
Class: Gastropoda
Also known as Stagnant Pond Snail, Swamp Lymnaea -
native to Europe and North America?
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Hygrophila (Air-breathing
Freshwater Snails)
Common Amber Snail - shell to 2 cm
Family: Succineidae (Amber Snails)
Genus: Succinea
Species: Putris
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
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Updated September 16 2012
Class: Gastropoda
Also known as European Amber Snail - native to Europe
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Giant Garden Slug - approx. 15 cm
Family: Limacidae (Keelback Slugs)
Genus: Limax
Species: Maximus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Also known as Great Grey or Leopard Slug - native to
Europe
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Gray Garden Slug - to 5 cm
Family: Agriolimacidae (Garden Keelback Slugs)
Genus: Deroceras
Species: Reticulatum
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Also known as Gray Field Slug - Mantle is greater than 1/3
of body - Garden Keelback Slugs are smaller than other
Keelback Slugs (Limacidae above) and more of a garden
pest - native to Eurasia and north Africa
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Garden Slug - approx. 4 cm
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Family: Agriolimacidae (Garden Keelback Slugs)?
Snail - shell approx. 1.5 cm
Family: ?
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Same as below?
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Snail - shell approx. 1.5 cm
Family: ?
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Same as above?
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Amber Snail - approx. 1 cm
Family: Succineidae (Amber Snails)
Genus: Succinea? Oxyloma ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Possibly the same as above (Succinea putris) or Oxyloma
elegans?
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
White-lipped Snail - approx. 2.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2007
Common Amber Snail - approx. 1.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - May 2011
Gray Garden Slug - approx. 4 cm - West Don Valley (E.T. Seton Park) - October 2012
Great Pond Snail - approx. 3 cm - Leslie Spit - August 2010
Garden Slug - approx. 4 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - September 2010
Snail - approx. 1.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - August 2008
Snail - approx. 1.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - August 2007
Amber Snail - approx. 1 cm - East Don Valley (Charles Sauriol Conservation Area) - October 2013
Brown-lipped Snails - approx. 2.5 cm - High Park - September 2013
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Updated October 14 2016
Giant Garden Slug - approx. 15 cm - Leslie Spit - October 2016
Amber Snail - approx. 1 cm
Family: Succineidae (Amber Snails)
Genus: Succinea? Oxyloma ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Possibly the same as above (Succinea putris) or Oxyloma
elegans?
Order? (Unranked Clade?): Stylommatophora (Terrestrial
Snails & Slugs)
Amber Snail - approx. 1 cm - Holland Marsh (Bradford West Gwillimbury) - August 2018