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Pomacea canaliculata
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.
South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top 100 of the "World's Worst Invasive Alien Species". It is also ranked as the 40th worst alien species in Europe and the worst alien species of gastropod in Europe.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Island Apple Snail
speciesPomacea maculata
Channeled Apple Snail
speciesPomacea canaliculata
Pomacea megastoma
speciesPomacea megastoma
Pomacea linnaei
speciesPomacea linnaei
Pomacea dolioides
speciesPomacea dolioides
Pomacea occulta
speciesPomacea occulta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1663458.