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2 unusual facts about Giant African land snail


Marcellus Empiricus

Other ingredients likely to have been rare for Marcellus’s intended audience include cinnamon, cloves, candied tragacanth, Alexandrian niter, and African snails, perhaps the Giant African land snail, which are prescribed live for pulping into a mélange.

Platydemus manokwari

This nematode parasitizes Platydemus manokwari as well as the Giant African land snail, and both of these organisms are transmission vectors of the parasite.


Platydemus manokwari

It has been said that "much of the 'evidence' that these predators can control Achatina fulica populations is based on a poor understanding of ecological principles. That the predators will prey on Giant African land snail is not evidence that they can control its populations...".


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Tutuila

Achatina fulica (Giant African land Snail) introduced in 1975 is reported to have damaged gardens.