Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Unknown land snail

by Heket
Jul 29, 2003 7:28 PM · 3528 views · 65.3 k · 512 x 384

Keywords: snail land tree exotic shell

Need help identifying snail! Found many of these all over a Lowes hardware store garden section in North Carolina. The units on the ruler are centimeters. Beautiful shells, and they look like some kind of exotic tree snail. Any more information would be very helpful. Thanks!

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Comments (3)

Heket

Jul 30, 2003 7:36 PM

could be achatina sylvatica-- anyone agree/disagree? here's a link to the only pic i could find online:

http://arnobrosi.tripod.com/achsyl.jpg

Snailfan

Oct 29, 2003 6:22 PM

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Its a amber snail. Did you find it in a marsh?

Heket

Nov 16, 2004 7:36 PM

wow, thanks. it looks just like the succinea pictures online. actually, these came from a lowes hardware garden center.

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