The close up picture is from the snail guide used here. The other pictures are mine.Say hello to my little friends! This snail is the star of my research, Caracolus caracola. Their shell diameters can be about the size of a tennis ball and its believed that they can live as long as 10-15 years. i'm sampling this guy in two forest types: the "forest-forest" and juxtaposed forest that was a coffee plantation. The plantation was abandoned in about 1928. So far, I have found about 4x's more caracolas on the abandoned coffee plantation site than the "forest-forest" site. I will blog more about the research at a later time.
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