Inter- and intra-specific variations of snail meat nutritive value are well documented. The same may be true
even within the same species variety. Both active and hibernating snails were collected from two distinct
sites from geographical and subclimatic point of view. Using bidimensional data processing, statistical, and
biochemical analyses we assessed the actions of environmental factors and metabolical status on intravariety
changes of aperture morphological features and foot meat chemical composition. We demonstrated
that aperture area tended to be larger in wetter areals whereas relationships between aperture height and
foot weight sugested the lack of scientific background for calibration of wild snails. As regards the
influence of metabolic status and location on foot chemical composition our results pointed to raw protein
as possible predictor of genetic and environmental-induced biochemical variations within the same species
variety while percentage content of raw protein in the total amount of dry matter displayed, regardless of
origin, a relatively constant variation in relation to the metabolic status.
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