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Big eared radix / Ear pond snail


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Lymnaea auricularia

What is it's status in NZ? I have found a few places that have called it invasive but cant seen to find anything about if it is actually classed as such. Any ideas where they are found in the wild?

They look to have been in NZ as far back as the late 70's, are they sold in the pet trade (have found one old TM auction)?

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http://www.radleyvillage.org.uk/ourvill ... brates.htm

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http://home.arcor.de/c.schuettler/Suess ... index.html

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had that same question earlier this year for DOC and bio-securities, they had never heard of it, and told me it was legal to sell. but imo it should be classed as an invasive species, so I only sell it to people who want snail farms for dwarf puffers. :P

best info for ID'ing limnaea sp. that I found said to look at the direction of spiral, theres also a long spiral species around

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