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East African land snail, Caramujo Africano(PT-BR)

Achatina fulica

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Description:

Big and bad. Not natural from Brazil, causing a lot of problems here. Destroy plantations and kills other snails.

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Achatina fulica

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Comments (6)
p.young713
No, I'm sorry, I do not have any more photos! But I will keep an eye out for snails from now on!Your snail has a point at the end, the snail my daughter found on the bank of a lake was round. I will have to look it up when I get some time.
rubens.luciano
The image is not very clear, but it´s not like this one. It´s not as long as the African snail. Do you have another picture?
p.young713
Hi, I found old photo of snail.Not sure it is like yours? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6654021
p.young713
Oh, I did not hear about that!! We have invasive species here too that take over and destroy the habitat of the native plants and fish. We recently found a snail in a river that looks something like that one. I will take a photo tomorrow to upload and compare the two.
rubens.luciano
It was illegally introduced in Brazil, as a substitute of the escargot another snail. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escargot). Now it´s a prague. And not only here, all around the world. Yes, it´s an air-breathing land snail. All about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatina_fulica http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramujo-gigante-africano
p.young713
How did it get there? Does it live on land?
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PublishedJune 24, 2011

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