Euglandina rosea

Basic information
Scientific name	Euglandina rosea	Click to magnify
Common names	Cannibal snail, Rosy wolf snail
Higher taxon	Spiraxidae, Stylommatophora, Gastropoda, Mollusca
Natural range	North America, Central America, South America.
Habitat	Forests and grassland in warm area.

Invasion information
Range in Japan	Chichijima Island, Ogasawara
Origin	Hawaii
Date	1960s
Route	Deliberate: as biocontrol agent for eradication of African land snail Achatina fulica.
Impact	Actually: Predation on native land snails. Native organism(s) affected: Land snails
Regulation in Japan	Import, transport and keeping are prohibited in Japan by the Invasive Alien Species Act.
Introduced range in other countries	Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, USA, many Pacific Islands (Hawaii, USA Samoa, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Norther Mariana, Palau, Wallis and Futuna), Papua New Guinea, Bahama, Bermuda, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion, Seychelles, etc.

Reference

Notes

DECO (ed) (2006) Dictionary of Alien Species. Tokyo-Shoseki, Tokyo. (in Jpn)
Ecol Soc Japan (ed) (2002) Handbook of Alien Species in Japan. Chijin-Shokan. (in Jpn)
JWRC (ed) (2008) A Photographic Guide to the Invasive Alien Species in Japan. Heibonsha. (in Jpn)
Ohbayashi, T, Okochi, I, Sato, H & Ono, T (2005) Food habit of Platydemus manokwari De Beauchamp, 1962 (Trichladida: Terricola: Rhynchodemidae), known as a predatory flatworm of land snails in thet Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan. Appl. Entomol. Zool. 40(4):609-614.

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This species can eat smaller land snails only, and was not effective for eradication of African land snail.