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  2. Pomacea canaliculata - Wikipedia

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    Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

  3. Pomacea maculata - Wikipedia

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    Pomacea maculata is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The common name of its synonymous name Pomacea insularum is the island apple snail. Together with Pomacea canaliculata it is the most invasive species of the family Ampullariidae. [2]

  4. Pomacea - Wikipedia

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    Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The genus is native to the Americas; most species in this genus are restricted to South America.

  5. Apple snail - Wikipedia

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    The apple snail's usual enemies are the birds limpkin and snail kite. Apple snails inhabit various ecosystems: ponds, swamps and rivers. Although they occasionally leave the water, they spend most of their time under water. Unlike the pulmonate snail families, apple snails are not hermaphroditic, but gonochoristic; i.e. they have separate sexes.

  6. Pomacea paludosa - Wikipedia

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    Five views of a shell of Pomacea paludosa. This species is the largest freshwater gastropod native to North America. [3] The shell is globose in shape. The whorls are wide, the spire is depressed, and the aperture is narrowly oval. [3] The shells are brown in color, and have a pattern of stripes. The shell is 60 millimetres (2.4 in) in both ...

  7. Pila (gastropod) - Wikipedia

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    The shells of Pila are used in traditional ethnomedicine for weakness by Saharia people in Rajasthan, India. [ 7 ] Pila ampullacea and Pila pesmei are some of the rice field snail species traditionally eaten in Thailand that have been displaced by the invasive golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata .

  8. Pomacea lineata - Wikipedia

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    The apple snail is a keystone species in Pantanal's ecosystem. When the wetlands are flooded once a year, the grass and other plants will eventually die and start to decay. During this process, decomposing microbes deplete the shallow water of all oxygen, suffocating larger decomposer

  9. Pomacea haustrum - Wikipedia

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    Pomacea haustrum, common name the titan applesnail, is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the applesnails. Original description