Land Snail Families (Gastropoda)

Land Snail Families (Gastropoda) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers families of air-breathing land snails, the gastropods that have left the sea and breathe with a lung-like cavity, such as Helicidae, the western Palaearctic family of medium to large snails sometimes called the typical snails, which includes some of the largest European land snails and several species common in gardens and other human-altered habitats. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes a family of land snails or land slugs. It excludes the cephalopod, coral, spider, horseshoe crab and extinct families, which have groups of their own. The group lets a reader compare the families of snails that live on land.