Pet mollusk
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For wallysaruman!This used to be Calimecita's pet snail until it made a Houdini-esque (?) escape, never to be found again.Good thing it was a single snail and not a pair, since we don't get these here in Buenos Aires province. (You don't want a plague of giant snails dining on your garden plants.) Para wallysaruman!Este fue el caracol mascota de Calimecita hasta que se mand un escape houdiniesco (?) y nunca ms fue encontrado.Qu bueno que era un caracol solo y no un par, ya que ac en la provincia de Buenos Aires no tenemos esto. (Nadie quiere una plaga de caracoles gigantes almorzndose el jardn.)Megalobulimus oblongus, originally from Entre Ros province, ArgentinaEnglish: Giant South American SnailEspaol (en Argentina): caracol de boca rosadaDistribution range / rea de distribucin: Jamaica and some of the Lesser Antilles; and from Colombia and Venezuela to Argentina and Uruguay / Jamaica y algunas de las Antillas Menores, y desde Colombia y Venezuela hasta Argentina y Uruguay
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- Crocodyloidea
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Unikonta
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Holozoa
- Filozoa
- Apoikozoa
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Eumetazoa
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Lophotrochozoa
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Heterobranchia
- Euthyneura
- Tectipleura
- Eupulmonata
- Stylommatophora (Land snails and slugs)
- Helicina
- Rhytidoidei
- Rhytidoidea
- Strophocheilidae
- Megalobulimus
- Megalobulimus oblongus
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