Euglandina rosea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Spiraxidae
- Genus
- Euglandina
- Species
- Euglandina rosea
- Scientific Name
- Euglandina rosea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Euglandina rosea
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.
This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs. The rosy wolfsnail was introduced into Hawaii in 1955 as a biological control for the invasive African land snail, Lissachatina fulica. This snail is responsible for the extinction of an estimated eight native snail species in Hawaii. This has caused the snail to be added to the IUCN's top 100 most invasive species.
...Euglandina rosea in languages:
- Chinese
- 玫瑰真橡子螺
- Chinese
- 玫瑰蝸牛
- English
- Rosy Wolfsnail
- English
- Rosy Wolf Snail
- English
- Cannibal Snail
- French
- Escargot carnivore
- French
- Glandine
- French
- Euglandine
- Japanese
- ヤマヒタチオビ
- Portuguese
- Caracol-lobo
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Euglandina aurata
- Euglandina bailyi
- Euglandina balesi
- Euglandina candida
- Euglandina carminensis
- Euglandina cognata
- Euglandina corneola
- Euglandina cumingi
- Euglandina cuneus
- Euglandina cylindracea
- Euglandina daudebarti
- Euglandina decussata
- Euglandina ecuadoriana
- Euglandina excavata
- Euglandina fosteri
- Euglandina ghiesbreghti
- Euglandina gigantea
- Euglandina immemorata
- Euglandina indusiata
- Euglandina insignis
- Euglandina jacksoni
- Euglandina lamyi
- Euglandina liebmanni
- Euglandina livida
- Euglandina longula
- Euglandina lowei
- Euglandina mazatlanica
- Euglandina michoacanensis
- Euglandina pilsbryi
- Euglandina pseudoturris
- Euglandina radula
- Euglandina rosea
- Euglandina singleyana
- Euglandina sowerbyana
- Euglandina striata
- Euglandina tenella
- Euglandina texasiana
- Euglandina titan
- Euglandina turris
- Euglandina vanuxemensis
- Euglandina wani