Bishop MuseumExplore

Achatina fulica

African Giant Snail

131

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1938

First collected

2008

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Achatina fulica, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 18 pages

  2. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: Supplement

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 18 pages

  3. 1998

    Patterns of introduction of non-indigenous non-marine snails and slugs in the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 12 pages

  4. 2007

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. Part 2: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. and Eldredge, L.G. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2006

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2003

    Invertebrate survey of Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii

    Howarth, F.G., D. Preston, F. Moretzsohn & M. McShane · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  7. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

Search the Library for “Achatina fulica” →

Where Bishop collected it

50 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1938 by David Timmins Fullaway; David Timmins Fullaway (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Achatina fulica, 189010Achatina fulica, 183295Achatina fulica, 183296Achatina fulica, 183297Achatina fulica, 205606Achatina fulica, 206251Achatina fulica, 206338Achatina fulica, 206339Achatina fulica, 206340Achatina fulica, 206341Achatina fulica, 206342Achatina fulica, 206343