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Achatina achatina, commonly known as the giant African snail, also known as the giant tiger land snail is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. The name "Achatina" is from "achates", Greek for agate. [1]
Giant African land snail is the common name of several species within the family Achatinidae, a family of unusually large African terrestrial snails: Achatina achatina, also known as the agate snail or Ghana tiger snail; Lissachatina fulica, a serious agricultural pest in some countries; Archachatina marginata, (Archachatina marginata)
Achatina achatina Linnaeus, 1758 or giant African snail, agate snail or Ghana tiger snail, from Western Africa (Liberia through Nigeria) grows to be the largest land snail on Earth. Achatina ampullacea Böttger, 1910; Achatina balteata Reeve, 1849 - Cameroon to Central Angola. Achatina bandeirana Morelet, 1866; Achatina bayaona Morelet, 1866
Giant African land snails first showed up in the U.S. in Miami in 1966, triggering an extensive eradication program that lasted nine years. But the ravenous snails returned to Miami in 2011 ...
According to the FDACS, these snails "pose a serious health risk to humans by carrying the parasite rat lungworm, known to cause meningitis in humans." Meningitis-causing giant African land snail ...
Four years after the first African giant snails appeared in Miami, they've spread to the suburbs and there seems to be no stopping them. Though massive, with the largest yet recorded around seven ...
The snail has been reported in Morocco, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast as early as the 1980s. [7] In 1961, Albert R. Mead, published the seminal work entitled "The Giant African Snail: A Problem in Economic Malacology". [8] This book compiled known information on the snail, as well as a detailed overview on its global distribution.
Parts of Broward County, Florida, are under quarantine after a giant African land snail — described as "one of the most damaging snails in the world" — was detected earlier this month ...