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Giant African land snail/East African land snail
Achatina fulica
-24.3678, 31.9214
Field Notes
Description:
Large air-breathing, land snail. The adult snails have a height of around 7 centimetres (2.8 in), and their length can reach 20 centimetres (7.9 in) or more.
Now listed as one of the top 100 invasive species in the world.
Habitat:
Native to East Africa.
Notes:
It is hard to tell how big this snail is from the photos but this one had a shell length of about 10-11cm. The last photo is from a car window but it is still zoomed in slightly.
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