Cochlostoma septemspirale

Cochlostoma septemspirale is a species of a land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlostomatidae.

The distribution of Cochlostoma septemspirale is southern Europe from the Pyrenees to south Germany and the central Balkans.

[4] The animal is medium-sized (5-6.5 mm long), greyish with weak brownish hue.

[4] Cochlostoma septemspirale lives in forest habitats, rocks, rock rubble, walls and grassy slopes, up to 2100 m.[4] It feeds on disintegrating plant substrate, sometimes also on the algae film growing on limestone.

[4] Juveniles hatch after 45–60 days, and the full adult shell size is reached after roughly 1 year.

Drawings of a shell of Cochlostoma septemspirale