The African giant snail is the largest snail from its family. The Giant Ghana snail is native to the forest of Ghana, Africa. Those snails are hermaphrodites, like almost all pulmonate gastropods. The shells of these snails grow s to 18 centimeters of length with a diameter of 9 centimeters, however,there are also bigger examples. Those snails lives in tropical conditio
n where they do not
have natural enemies. Each of those gigantic snails lays up to twelve
hundred eggs per year that causing a big problem in natural habitat for
the other, normal size snails that we have used to. The size does matter
in this case, the Giant Tiger snail demolish around 500 kinds of plants
and they also eat the stucco and paint on buildings. Those things cause
that the local tree snails are threatened or to become extinct.
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