Euglandina rosea

Taxobox
name = "Euglandina rosea"

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image_caption = "Euglandina rosea"
from NW Florida
image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo =
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Spiraxidae
genus = "Euglandina "
species = "E. rosea"
binomial = "Euglandina rosea"
binomial_authority = (Férussac, 1821)

The rosy wolfsnail or the cannibal snail, "Euglandina rosea", is a species of large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

This species is native to tropical North America, but is has become an invasive species in many other places including Hawaii.

Life habits

This species is a voracious predator, preying on other snails and slugs. The smaller species of snail that it eats are ingested whole.

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Euglandina_rosea.html Invasion Biology Introduced Species Summary Project - Columbia University]
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/gastro/snail_eating_snails.htm "Euglandina rosea"] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site