Talk:Cepaea nemoralis

The main photo

Hello,

I think it would be better to us different main photo, one with with dark brown lip. It is usually sign present in most of the population and widely used for determination of the species.

--Tomáš Thon (talk) 07:52, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

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Propose to move to Cepaea nemoralis

I propose to move this page to Cepaea nemoralis. There are three "common names" listed here, none of which seem to have much currency amongst those who write seriously about snails, and I suspect that they were artificial inventions by individuals rather than based on folk tradition. Certainly the Ngram implies an overwhelming predominance of Cepaea nemoralis. The scientific name is not particularly offputting in complexity or pronouncibility. The big citizen-science project on Cepaea ("Evolution Megalab") never appeared to use "Grove snail" in its literature. JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:59, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

No responses here for over a week, so I am going to go ahead and do this move. It turns out that my suspicion about the origin of the name was correct: in the 19th century the commoner name was "whorled snail" (now used for Hygromia cinctella) and the first use of "grove snail" was for Arianta arbustorum. Anyway, virtually all sources mention Cepaea nemoralis, and mostly the vernacular names (not always including "grove snail") are mentioned only in passing. JMCHutchinson (talk) 08:42, 16 April 2023 (UTC)