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Eobania vermiculata also known as Helix vermiculata, common name the "chocolate-band snail", is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails or typical snails.
Eobania vermiculata is the type species of the genus Eobania.
This species of large land snail is common in the Mediterranean area; its distribution ranges from eastern Spain to Crimea:
In this species the color of the shell is variable. The background color can be whitish to greenish yellow, and the shell often has darker coloured bands or spots. The ventral side of the shell frequently has two brown bands and is whitish between the lowest band and the umbilicus. The shell has 4–4.5 whorls. The last whorl descends abruptly below the periphery of the shell. The apertural margin is white, and is reflected (turned back) in adult shells; in juveniles this is true only on the columellar side. The umbilicus is narrow and open in juveniles, only partly covered by the reflected columellar margin; in adult shells, however, the umbilicus is completely closed.
The width of the shell is 22–32 mm; the height of the shell is 14–24 mm.
