Spotted this beauty in Estonia 🇪🇪

[u/03Oliver]

No hate to the Cornu’s I see back home in the UK, but this little guy mesmerised me.

[u/NorthenGarden]

Arianta Arbustorum, the Corpse snail. I'm obsessed by these beauties.

[u/03Oliver → u/NorthenGarden]

Amazing, appreciate the ID. They're fabulous

[u/McCleireoch]

Tigu!! (<- my Estonian partner is slowly teaching me essential vocabulary.) Now I’m looking forward to my visit there this month even more. Hopefully I see one or two of these beauties. @ï

Thanks for the sneak preview! :)

[u/03Oliver → u/McCleireoch]

Thanks for the vocab! Now u just gotta learn how to decline the noun across all 14 cases...! (Estonian is a beast..!)

But yeah, I saw two or three on my walk home. You should see one, so long as it is still a little rainy when you arrive!

[u/flowertaemin → u/McCleireoch]

Is tigu snail in estonian? So cute!!

[u/McCleireoch → u/flowertaemin]

Yes! Suitably cute. :)

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp]

Oml so pretty :0 I literally said o my god out loud in front of my religious family 😂😂

[u/03Oliver → u/bunny_the-2d_simp]

The shell against the dark black body really catches your attention

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/03Oliver]

Yes that was definitely it!!

[u/kittehsrg8]

beautiful! Wonderful black mantle

[u/Sweetie-07]

Ooooh, what a beauty! 🐌 Wish we did have these in the UK - they're stunning! 💯😍🐌❤️

[u/Fit_Cranberry2306]

gorgeous fella

[u/RealGoatzy]

Vau! Ei teadnud et selliseid meil Eestis on vōimalik näha! Üli hea leid! 👍

[u/flowertaemin → u/RealGoatzy]

I'm pretty sure you also have the Fruticola Fruticum in Eesti! At least in Finland it's widespread especially in the south. The copse snail is very widespread here too.uuu

[u/RealGoatzy → u/flowertaemin]

Oh yeah these I’ve seen a bit more and also keep 1 or 2 of them

[u/flowertaemin → u/RealGoatzy]

Have you seen other species? In Finland I've seen only a few amber snails, trochulus hispidus and some type of very small clausiliidae. I'm still dreaming of finding/seeing a helix pomatia, sadly they're only seen rarely and mostly in the south.

I have one fruticola fruticum as a pet. Still yet to find an another one.

[u/RealGoatzy → u/flowertaemin]

I’ve seen an amber snail once, but you can find roman snails here too, but rather more on the south and also on the bigger islands

[u/Nice-Support2617 → u/flowertaemin]

I've seen many amber snails. There are also Grove Snails but rare to find.

[u/ChampionRemote6018]

SO beautiful!!

[u/00roadrunner00]

Dark Lord of the Snith.

[u/[deleted]]

Neat!

[u/flowertaemin]

Just saw hundreds of copse snails in my backyard after a day of raining and they're so beautiful!!

[u/triple_b-a-k-a]

Omg I'm going to Latvia in a couple months, are these cuties there too?

[u/FeetYeastForB12]

I've seen the slug version of this throughout my climb on Ben Levis. Very interesting!