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Giant African Land Snail in Florida
EDIS, 2011 They’re back! In 1966, a child smuggled three giant African land snails into south Florida which were released in their garden. Seven years later, more than 18,000 snails had been found and it took 10 years and $1 million to eliminate them.
John L. Capinera
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A REVIEW ON BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF GIANT AFRICAN SNAILS [PDF]
Science Heritage JournalThe Giant African snail (Achatina fulica Bowdich) is classified under the Phylum Mollusca and the Class Gastropoda. This species is notorious for its detrimental impact on agricultural crops in areas where it is found, making it one of the largest and ...
M. P. Gadekar
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Perception of giant African snail (Achatina fulica) in urban community from Colombia [PDF]
Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, 2019 In Colombia, the control of giant African snail populations (Achatina fulica) has been enforced for the past eight years according to the Environmental, Housing, and Territorial Development Ministry (MAVDT from its initials in Spanish).
Angie Patiño Montoya +2 more
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Forecasting the Risk of Reinvasion by the Giant African Snail in Ogasawara, Japan
BiotropicaABSTRACT Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the potential distribution of invasive species, even in areas with limited occurrence data. However, their accuracy may be compromised when input data are spatially biased or geographically restricted.
Mai Matsumoto, Takeshi Osawa
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Scientometrics of zoonoses transmitted by the giant African snail Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São PauloThe dissemination of the giant African snail Achatina fulica in several countries has triggered a great number of studies on the mollusk, including those on zoonoses related to health in humans.
Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli +3 more
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Snail Paradise Trilogy: A Series by Chang En-man
Pacific Arts, 2022 In 1933, a Japanese colonial official introduced the giant African snail ( Achatina fulica ), originally from East Africa, to Taiwan from Singapore to be raised for food.
En-man 張恩滿 Chang
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Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2021 Background African giant land snails (Archachatina marginata) are hermaphroditic pulmonate nocturnal gastropods of the Achatinidae family. The snail is one of West Africa's largest known terrestrial snails.
Titus Adeniyi Olusi +2 more
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: The giant African snail, Achatina fulica, is an invasive species recognized for being a serious agricultural pest and an intermediary vector for diverse parasites that cause diseases in humans.
Eder Cano-Pérez +4 more
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Global dynamics of niche and range in Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica)
, 2022 Global dynamics of niche and range in Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica)
Chunhong Wu (14028463)
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Comparative diagnostic imaging in giant African land snails (Achatinidae)
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 Giant African land snails (GALS) have become increasingly popular, for example, as pets or in kindergartens in Europe, but little is known about their clinically relevant anatomy, diseases, or further details in diagnostic imaging. The present study focuses on the techniques and image interpretation of radiography, computed tomography, and sonography ...
Gumpenberger, Michaela +2 more
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