West Indian Bulimulus

Description:

At 4:50 p.m. in the afternoon, it had been raining for about one hour, and now the rain is starting to slow down. I walked over to the right front window, and I saw a large snail, slowly crawling on the concrete front porch, which was right next to the side wall. This snail, was about three feet from the front door. After a couple of minutes, of crawling on the concrete front porch, this snail, starting climbing up the side wall. I then went outside, and took some photos of this snail. After taking some photos of this snail, I went back inside my house. This snail, climbed about four inches up the wall. I then went into the kitchen for about two minutes. When I got back to the right front window, this snail was gone.. This snail, was about one fourth of an inch wide, and one and one fourth of an inch long. The color of this snail, was different shades of brown. It's shell, had six whorls to it. It had a long muscular foot. It had two, long, upper tentacles, and two, short, lower tentacles. Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda.

Habitat:

Snails live in such places as: marshes, woodlands, pond margins and backyard wildlife habitats. Look for them in flower and vegetable gardens, under leaves, mulch, rocks, logs, in cracks and crevices, and under flower pots and other fixtures.

Notes:

I spotted this large, land snail, on my front porch, after it had been raining for about an hour, at 4:50 p.m. in the afternoon. Snail, is a common name, that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Type of shell, this snail had: Conical-Broad/Bulimoid.