Kevin
Archachatina dimidiata
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Post by Kevin on Jul 23, 2005 10:09:47 GMT
 Just found this picture and was wondering, what snail species did these shells belong too? |
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Post by fredrik on Jul 23, 2005 11:35:13 GMT
Looks like fulica's. I saved one of my L.fulica's and prepared the shell (cleaned it, oiled it) and it looks similar to those in the picture.
/Fredrik
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2005 14:30:30 GMT
yes they are some beautiful purpley fulica ;D
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Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
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Post by Leah on Jul 23, 2005 14:56:42 GMT
I have a shell that looks just like that but it's really purple. I'm sure it's not a fulica. I got it in one of those sea-shell baskets you get in tourist shops.
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Post by Paul on Jul 23, 2005 23:09:37 GMT
I have a shell like that and I wondered about it, the columella was white without a blueish tint but if they are immature it probably wouldn't have developed. I figured they were a type of tree snail with them being so white, and the fact that some tree snails look like and get mistaken for fulica. They do have a truncated and twisted columellas like fulica. Does the cleaning process bleach the shells? I'll have a read through Bequeart on fulica, I haven't bothered coz they are not normally the ones we have problems with, lol. Perhaps we can find a definite feature that would prove it to be fulica. They certainly look like fulica.
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Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
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Post by Leah on Jul 25, 2005 15:24:22 GMT
This is the one I've got. Is it the same? Could it be a fulica though cause I got it in a seashell basket?  |
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Post by Arno on Jul 25, 2005 18:07:21 GMT
I've got a few like that too,also from one of those seashell baskets
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