Partula and the wolf snail
A predator introduced to eat one snail ate another. The Partula of the Pacific islands are the record of that mistake.
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Species
Portraits of particular snails.
Cone snails
A cone shell can be a venomous animal with a harpoon. If it might be alive, it stays on the reef.
Apple snails and the pink eggs
Bright pink egg masses above the waterline belong to apple snails. In the wrong wetland they are the next generation of an invasion.
The giant African land snail
Lissachatina fulica is a large, regulated, and destructive traveler. A mercy release is how the next infestation starts.
The grove snail and its bands
Yellow, pink, or brown, with up to five bands: Cepaea looks like many species and is usually one or two. The lip of the shell tells them apart.
The garden snail
Cornu aspersum is the brown, flecked snail of vegetable beds from Europe to California. It is not every snail in the bed.