Chivita Snail (Pomacea flagellata)

Chivita Snail, a reference photo — Photo: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 (licence)

Pomacea flagellata is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae. In older literature this species was known as ghiesbrechti and today is still poorly understood.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Chivita Snail being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Pomacea diffusa
Lanistes ovum
Pomacea scalaris
Pomacea canaliculata
Pomacea maculata

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Species: Pomacea flagellata

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