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Apple Snail Pomacea glauca

Photo: Mark Yokoyama

Classification

Pomacea [genus] (1)
glauca [species]

Classification

Pomacea [genus] (1)
glauca [species]

Presence

Recorded on Sint Maarten
Presence status No longer present (0) - Sint Maarten
Notes on presence status Hovestadt & Neckheim (2020) have not seen this species, and with a record from Sint Maarten that is more than a century old, it may now considered to be extinct on Sint Maarten, although it was previously common.

Publications

  • van Bussel, T. 2022. Disappearance of St. Maarten’s Snails. In: DCNAnature.org. 25-March-2022. [link]
  • Coomans, H.E. 1967. The non-marine Mollusca of St. Martin (Lesser Antilles). Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 24: 118-145.
  • Hovestadt, A & C.M. Neckheim 2020. A critical checklist of the non-marine molluscs of St. Martin, with notes on the terrestrial malacofauna of Anguilla and Saint- Barthélemy, and the description of a new subspecies. Folia Conchyliologica 57: 1-38.