Brown-lipped Snail is also known as the Banded Snail. The shell can vary in colour, and in the patterning of the bands. They can have up to five bands across their whorls but sometimes there are none. It nearly always has a dark rim at the lip of the shell opening. The shell is quite large - up to 25 mm.

The Brown-lipped snail eats fresh vegetation, but it usually prefers plants which are dead or decaying and so is not the nuisance to gardeners that some people believe. The main predator of the Brown-lipped snail is the Song Thrush which can crack open the snail shell by striking the snail against a stone.