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Garlic Glass Snail

Oxychilus Alliarius

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Field Notes

Description:

These garden creature is a species of small air- breathing land snail feeds on plants at night, about half an inch to 1 inch in diameter.

Habitat:

Southeast Asia, Garden of wet and moist areas..

Notes:

A terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family of Oxychilidae, Its name refers to a strong odor of a garlic when released by these creatures when they are disturbed.

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PublishedJune 13, 2014

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