"Theba pisana", common names white garden snail, sand hill snail, white Italian snail, Mediterranean coastal snail, or simply the Mediterranean snail, is an edible species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Similar species: Pulmonata
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Uploaded Jan 28, 2022. Captured Apr 8, 2012 11:50 in 5CQ3+62 Bras del Port, Spain.
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In this French web page:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escargot
it mentions they also do that to protect themselves from heat:
<<Land snails are only active when the humidity is high enough. Otherwise, the animal retracts inside its shell, which it seals with a mucous veil (short inactivity) or with an epiphragm15, which prevents it from dehydrating. Some snails climb on a wall or on top of the grass stems to escape the furnace of the ground..>>
That make sense in the pic above as the ambient is near a saline and it can get really hot in this area.
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