The grove snail, also named brown-lipped snail or lemon snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail. It is common and widespread in Western Europe. It is present in a wide range of habitats, including gardens and abandoned land.
The grove snail has a large variety of colorations and band patterns (polymorphism), with some having little and even no bands, and some having many. The colorations of the shell are red, brown, yellow and white. The apertural lip of adult grove snails is normally dark brown. The shell surface is semi-glossy. An adult shell consists of 4 to 6 whorls, with a width of 18 to 25 mm and a height of 12 to 22 mm. This species feeds mainly on dead or senescent plants.
I stumbled into an empty shell of a grove snail during a stroll through the neighborhood. I photographed it in the last light of the day.