Helix pronuba is a species of large, air-breathing land snail in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.

[1] It is native to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and introduced to Crete and Greece.

It is characterized by a shell relatively small for the genus with dark brown margins of the shell aperture.

[2] In the local language of Crete these snails are sometimes called "barbarésos" or "bárbaros", which might suggest their origin in Barbaria (North Africa).

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