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Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or cannibal snail, is a species of medium-sized to large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae. [1] This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs. [2]
Euglandina is the type genus of the subfamily Euglandininae. The pulmonate genus Euglandina is often referred to as Glandina in older literature, and the most widely known species, Euglandina rosea, may commonly be found under the synonym Glandina truncata. [4] These snails are especially notable for being carnivorous and predatory. They are ...
Partula navigatoria is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail in the family Partulidae. [2] Subspecies ... (Euglandina rosea). [1] References ...
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2012 Holland B.S., T. Chock, A. Lee & S. Sugiura. Tracking behavior in the snail, Euglandina rosea: First evidence of preference for endemic versus biocontrol target pest species in Hawaii. American Malacological Bulletin 30(1):153–157. 2011 Sugiura, S., B.S Holland & R.H. Cowie. Predatory behaviour in juvenile Euglandina rosea.
E. rosea may refer to: Ecdysanthera rosea, a plant species now known as Urceola rosea; Eria rosea, an orchid species; Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or the cannibal snail, a large predatory air-breathing land snail species
Genera in the family Spiraxidae include: Subfamily Spiraxinae include seven [1] genera: . Mayaxis Thompson, 1995 [1]; Micromena H. B. Baker, 1939 [1] - this was the type genus of the subfamily Micromeninae
Partula suturalis was extirpated due to the introduction of the carnivorous land snail Euglandina rosea (the rosy wolfsnail). In 1977, biologists deliberately released the rosy wolfsnail onto Moorea Island in an effort to control a previously introduced invasive species, the giant African land snail, Lissachatina fulica.