This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell.

The brown shell grows to a length of 9 mm.

Inside the husk was a brown inner shell, full of soft white fibres.

It has a hard dark brown shell enclosing all the soft parts of the body and as its name says it, a really large head.

Individual animals have brown ribbed shells, which darken to black with age.

Back in his valley, snails had plain brown shells.

The minute, brown shell attains a height of 2 mm.

The species has a golden brown shell and skin.

They will crawl up tree trunks, shed their brown shells and emerge as adults.

The common name comes from the grey to brown coloured shell.