Left: alimentary organs separated from rest of body and spread out.
Right: alimentary organs in situ except rectum and ureter.
1: fragment of external epithelium containing outer lips and jaw.
2: yellowish buccal mass containing the odontophore which supports the radula.
3: distal, blind end of radula sac protruding from buccal mass.
4: salivary duct.
5: salivary gland
6: oesophagus.
7: crop.
8: liver/digestive gland (much of it removed during dissection of left specimen).
9: part of intestine.
10: kidney.
11: rectum. (Yellowish ureter is partially visible alongside the rectum, but see image 21Ch 21 Cepaea hortensis mantle. Pennine foothills, V.C. Derbyshire, England. August 2018. for a clearer view.)
12: anus.
13: part of inner surface of mantle cavity (acts as lung) lined with respiratory/pulmonary veins.
14: buccal retractor muscle..