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Largest collection of snail shells (single species)

Largest collection of snail shells (single species)
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Who
Joeri Huyskens
Where
Belgium (Berlaar,)
When
13 September 2014

The largest collection of snail shells (single species) belongs to Patrick Huyskens (Belgium) and consists of 10,368 shells from the species Cepaea nemoralis, verified on 13 September 2014.

Joeri began his collection 43 years ago and his collection is subdivided by color, height, markings and size, but all of the shells are from the same species, Capaea nemoralis, also known as the grove snail or brown-lipped snail, an air-breathing land snail.