marginata ovum?

[Kevin]

I was just cleaning my snails housing and I had a good check of all my marginata, 3 of them, which are the only 3 snails in they're tank, has an orange columella, all the others dont, Ive read on here before that marginata with a orange columella are ovum, so are 3 of mine ovum?

[Paul]

Yes, it certainly looks that way.

One thing worth mentioning is that we don't know what crossbreeds have. The reason I mention that, is that the papyracea I have are probably suturalis, coz they come from Cameroon and don't look like papyracea shells I have since seen. Raphael from achatinindae.com thought they were suturalis. They are small, slender, red columella and do look like miniature marginata. They fit Bequaert's descriptions and measurements. But they don't look much like other suturalis I have seen generally. I'm just saying that there are no doubt all sorts of variations, so at the moment we are using the rough rule of thumb "red=suturalis, yellow/apricot=ovum, white/white-blue=marginata".

[Kevin]

admin said:

Yes, it certainly looks that way.

One thing worth mentioning is that we don't know what crossbreeds have. The reason I mention that, is that the papyracea I have are probably suturalis, coz they come from Cameroon and don't look like papyracea shells I have since seen. Raphael from achatinindae.com thought they were suturalis. They are small, slender, red columella and do look like miniature marginata. They fit Bequaert's descriptions and measurements. But they don't look much like other suturalis I have seen generally. I'm just saying that there are no doubt all sorts of variations, so at the moment we are using the rough rule of thumb "red=suturalis, yellow/apricot=ovum, white/white-blue=marginata".

Great, so I have 3 marginata ovum, none of mine has a red columella though, so all my others are marginata marginata.