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USDA Warning
African Giant LandSnails Achitina folica PLEASE take the time to read thisAn important message from the US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service On a Man and Mollusc Page
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the Giant African Land Snail (actually three separate species are kept as pets -Achatina fulica(Bowdich, 1822) -Achatina marginata(Swainson, 1821) -Achatina achatina(Linnaeus, 1758)
(Listed On Sat Dec 24 00:50:49 2005)

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Oreo-Odessa Files by Man and Mollusc The Oreo-Odessa Introduction PageThe background information on why Odessa and Oreo are presenting this article.
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The Giant African Snail The Giant African Snail A Problem in Economic Malacology - "This page contains links to the searchable full text of the all the articles in the book entitled The Giant African Snail (1961. Albert R. Mead. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 257 pp.). ..."
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Giant African Landsnails GALS by Yurii Yashin	Last 7 Days!
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The Snail Shelter United Kingdom The Snail Shelter - Welcome to The Snail Shelter Website! This site is all about Giant African Land Snails, or GALS for short.
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ÜBer Die Schneck ber die Schneck A German site where you will find many pictures of Achatinidae, plus a forum and chat facilities. An English Link is onsite
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Schnick-Schneck Schnick-SchneckThis is a great German site, all about Snails with particular attention paid to European species.
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Pet Snails Petsnails An United Kingdom site geared to evevrything on keeping snails as pets
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Giant African Land Snail Giant African Land Snail Site Annette K. Goodmans site and links to the Cyberslug Webring. Everything from anatomy, snail care to pictures	Last 7 Days!
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Wicked Willy Giant African Land Snail by the Honolulu Zoo facts plus. Even a live video of Wicked Willy
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Giant African Snail Online Book - A Problem in Economic Malacology by Albert R. Mead (Mead 1961) - "This page contains links to the searchable full text of the all the articles in the book entitled The Giant African Snail (1961. Albert R. Mead. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 257 pp.). "
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The Snail Pages The Snail Pages How to Care for Giant African Landsnails
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Snail Diseases Injuries And Mutations
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The World Of Snails The World of Snails A detailed website that casts an eye over snails world-wide Discussed is general taxonomy, general care information and a even snail glossary of terms.
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Disease Fact Sheet CDC Fact Sheet Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection
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The Trail Of The Snail The Trail of the Snail - From trivia to biology to memorabilia. this is a good site with great reference material.
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APHIS/USDA.Gov For information on agricultural permits required to import snails and slugs visit
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USDA Giant African Snail
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Hot Issues APHIS-USDA Hot Issues Giant African Snails"Giant African snails" is the common name used to describe three snail species native to Africa and considered serious agricultural pests in the United States.
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Giant African Land Snail Mollusks GIANT AFRICAN LAND SNAIL American Muyseum of Natural History
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Achitinidae.Com German Site All apsects of keeping are covered and there are extensive shell pictures of various common and obscure species. There is also an active forum.
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Willkommen Bei Achatina.De German African landsnail page.Information on how to build a snailtank.
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Snails 2 Die 4 Welcome to Snails 2 Die 4 forum.
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Snails Club. RU General interest facts and a forum
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Giant African Snails YouTube Video
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Snail Central Snail Central - The trail of the snail links
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Landsnails: Achatinidae Landsnails Achatinidae - Some of the snails on this page are kept as pets and are close to my hart. They are kept in fish-tanks with a + 10 cm layer of soil, covered with detritus from my garden.
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About.Com GALS Potential Pets or Potent Pests Or both (Exotic Pets)
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GALS Alert WHATS HAPPENING - The University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service-Entomology & Plant Pathology - EPP #60 -Volume No.7 - May 21, 2004"EXOTIC GIANT AFRICAN SNAIL ALERT" by Beth Long (Source APHIS Press Release)
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Pet - Care Sheet Pet - Care Sheet - Giant African Land Snails - By Martin Overton
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University Of Georgia Georgians warned about giant African land snails - Snails known to spread diseases to both humans and plants.
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Club Of Fans Of Snails Ahatina Site in English and Russian.
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Image Gallery Image Gallery Russian site by Yurii Yashin
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Achatina A Russian site by an experienced gentleman who has owned several types of African Snails.
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Project African Snails "F.A.O. INCENTIVA O CONSUMO DE INSETOS EM TODO O MUNDO ! ..."
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