Samoan Land Snails
Identification Guide (data last revised 29 June 2001)
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Samoan Land Snails
Identification Guide (data last revised 29 June 2001) |
Use this image-based identification guide to help identify Samoan land snails.
Species: Pleuropoma (Pleuropoma) plicatilis (Mousson, 1865)
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| Distribution: | Savai‘i, ‘Upolu. |
| Natural Range: | Samoa |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Habitat: | On trees. |
| Adult Size: | Height, 9 mm; width, 14 mm. |
| Identification: | The largest Samoan helicinid. Similar to Pleuropoma beryllina, but larger. Shell white (particularly if the periostracum has worn off) or yellow, sometimes pink, lacking transverse zigzag markings, not keeled. |