page_title: Cepaea
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Cepaea / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Cepaea hortensis (left) and Cepaea vindobonensis (right) Deutsch: Gerippte Bänderschnecke (Cepaea vindobonensis) und Gartenbänderschnecke (Cepaea hortensis) im Vergleich
context_page_description: Cepaea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. The shells of species within this genus are often brightly colored and patterned with stripes. The two species from this genus, the common and widespread C. nemoralis and C. hortensis, have been model species for early studies of genetics and natural selection. They occur in Europe, although introduced populations occur elsewhere in the world.
  Like many Helicidae, this genus of snails create and use love darts.
context_section_description: For a long time, four species were classified in the genus Cepaea.
   However, molecular phylogenetic studies suggested that the latter two should be placed in the unrelated genera Macularia and Caucasotachea: 
  Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Cepaea sylvatica (Draparnaud, 1801), now Macularia sylvatica
  Cepaea vindobonensis (Férussac, 1821), now Caucasotachea vindobonensis
caption: A comparison between Cepaea hortensis (left) and Caucasotachea vindobonensis (right)
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