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Pomacea paludosa (Florida applesnail)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pomacea paludosa, common name the Florida applesnail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
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Predators

Alligator mississippiensis (Alligator, Gator, American alligator, Florida alligator, Mississippi alligator, Louisiana alligator.)[1]
Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2ALTERNATIVE FOODS OF A DIET SPECIALIST, THE SNAIL KITE, STEVEN R. BEISSINGER, The Auk 107: 327-333. April 1990
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0