General Information

COMMON NAMES: Asian Trampsnail, white bradybaena snail, Asian Tramp Snail

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GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE se.Asia – Indonesia; EXOTIC EXOTIC circumtropical and subtropical, incl. many Pacific islands

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COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced – Recent, Naturalised; S.Group – common; Land, horticultural – mountains; disturbed and undisturbed habitats, gardens

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SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Pest – mild

KEY FEATURES: Shell a low spiral (helicoid), to 15x11mm(ØxH). SHELL colour variable – pale brownish to yellow-brown, 0-1 dark spiral stripe; ~5 whorls, spire convex; aperture with out-turned lip. ANIMAL grey to brown, tentacles dark. REPRODUCTION hermaphroditic, mutual mating, lay ~20 eggs (each 2mmØ) just under surface of the soil, hatch in ~15days.