A close-up view of the face of a pinkish-red snail. Its two large eye-stalks are tilted towards the camera, and its two face tentacles descend towards the gravel it is travelling across. The photo is so close that most of the shell is out of frame.

One of my favourite snail shots; this is Monadenia fidelis, the Pacific sideband, I think the largest local land snail we have.

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