Euglandina rosea
(A.Férussac, 1821) · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Euglandina rosea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 111 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI40 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics97 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or cannibal snail, is a species of medium-sized to large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euglandina rosea (Férussac, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289331 on 2020-11-09 This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs.Clifford, Kavan T., Liaini Gross, Kwame Johnson, Khalil J. Martin, Nagma Shaheen, and Melissa A. Harrington. (2003)."Slime-trail Tracking in the Predatory Snail, Euglandina Rosea." Behavioral Neuroscience 117.5:1086-095. The rosy wolfsnail was introduced into Hawaii in 1955 as a biological control for the invasive African land snail, Lissachatina fulica.Gerlach, Justin. (1994). “THE ECOLOGY OF THE CARNIVOROUS SNAIL EUGLANDINA ROSEA.” Diss. Wadham College, Oxford. This snail is responsible for the extinction of an estimated eight native snail species in Hawaii.Kurt Auffenberg & Lionel A. Stange (November 2001). "Snail-eating snails of Florida, Gastropoda". University of Florida. EENY251. Retrieved October 7, 2012. This has caused the snail to be added to the IUCN’s top 100 most invasive species.
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A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Euglandina rosea has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Record type5 111 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions15 of 35 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 470 |
| Chicago, US | 185 |
| Philadelphia, US | 182 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 147 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 137 |
| Cambridge, US | 104 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 46 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 39 |
| Champaign, US | 22 |
| Montgomery, US | 11 |
| Denver, US | 9 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 8 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 7 |
| Washington, US | 7 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 5 |
| Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| New Haven, US | 4 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| CASlocation not on record | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Los Angeles, US | 3 |
| Muséum National d'Histoire Naturellelocation not on record | 2 |
| ELMClocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 2 |
| Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Sydney, AU | 2 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Alabama Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Saint John, CA | 1 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad de Quintana Roo, Chetumallocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Euglandina rosea was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.