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Megalobulimus sp
We were told by our guide that this is a native species but I've not been able to find a scientific name for it so I suspect this may be an invasive African Giant land snail (Achatina fulica)
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Spotted on Dec 5, 2012
Submitted on Dec 9, 2012
10 Comments
Livan, thank you for the ID - I don't know how I missed it!
Thank you too Gilma!
Wonderful, I think you may have an ID for that gorgeous Giant Snail?!
It's a Megalobulimus sp., don't know if M. maximus like this one:
http://www.jaxshells.org/mega.htm
There are many species:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalobulim...
It's not the African, as Natral said bellow the shell shape is not right.
Thanks Gilma
WOW!! Lovely spotting, thanks for sharing
And very heavy Carol!
WOW! Huge!
Thanks guys!
Wow! Nice nails BTW ;-)
omg that's HUGE!