Euglandina rosea
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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]
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Euglandina rosea | |
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A live individual of Euglandina rosea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Spiraxidae |
Genus: | Euglandina |
Species: | E. rosea |
Binomial name | |
Euglandina rosea (Ferussac, 1818) | |
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This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs.[2] The rosy wolfsnail was introduced into Hawaii in 1955 as a biological control for the invasive African land snail, Lissachatina fulica.[3] This snail is responsible for the extinction of an estimated eight native snail species in Hawaii.[4] This has caused the snail to be added to the IUCN's top 100 most invasive species.