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  2. Giant African land snails appear to be invading Florida again

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    Giant African land snails first showed up in the U.S. in Miami in 1966, triggering an extensive eradication program that lasted nine years. But the ravenous snails returned to Miami in 2011 ...

  3. Gastropoda - Wikipedia

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    Some of the more familiar and better-known gastropods are terrestrial gastropods (the land snails and slugs). Some live in fresh water, but most named species of gastropods live in a marine environment. Gastropods have a worldwide distribution, from the near Arctic and Antarctic zones to the tropics. They have become adapted to almost every ...

  4. Powelliphanta - Wikipedia

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    Powelliphanta is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropods in the family Rhytididae, found only in New Zealand. They are carnivorous, eating invertebrates, mostly native earthworms. Often restricted to very small areas of moist forest, they are prey to introduced mammalian predators, and many species are threatened or ...

  5. Lissachatina fulica - Wikipedia

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    Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. [1] It is also known as the Giant African land snail. [2] It shares the common name "giant African snail" with other species of snails such as Achatina achatina and Archachatina marginata. This snail species has been ...

  6. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...

  7. USDA seizes more than 1,200 illegal giant snails - AOL

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    By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) - The giant African snail damages buildings, destroys crops and can cause meningitis in humans. But some people still want to collect, and even eat, the ...

  8. Land snail - Wikipedia

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    Most of the non-pulmonate land snails belong to lineages in the Caenogastropoda, and tend to have a gill and an operculum. The largest clade of land snails is the Cyclophoroidea, with more than 7,000 species. [6] Many of these operculate land snails live in habitats or microhabitats that are sometimes (or often) damp or wet, such as in moss.

  9. Bermuda land snail - Wikipedia

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    Bermuda land snails, scientific name Poecilozonites, are an endemic genus of pulmonate land snail in the family Gastrodontidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). 12 species are known from the fossil record, and 4 of these species (bermudensis, nelsoni, circumfirmatus, reinianus) survived into modern times, but due to the highly negative effects of human ...