Lissachatina fulica

African Giant Snail

Introduced to Hawaiʻiterrestrial

(Bowdich, 1822)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 881469 ↗

Photo: (c) PK Yeung, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by PK Yeung (iNaturalist)

189

Bishop specimens

Type specimens

1925

First collected

2026

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

2022
Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Hawai`i: updated records and distributions of gastropod hosts on Maui, Moloka`i and Lāna`i
Nguyen, L.A., Kim, J.R., DeLeon, K.L., Goulding, T.C., Hobbs, C.S., Kulvicki, H.A., Yeung, N.W. & Hayes, K.A. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
Read
2021
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2021: Volume
Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
Read
2018
Rat lungworm ( Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Hawai‘i: updated host gastropod records and distributions on Maui
Yeung, N.W., Kim, J.R. & Hayesw, K.A. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
Read
2017
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2017: Volume
Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
Read

Search the Library for “Lissachatina fulica” →

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Kenneth A. Hayes, Meaghan M. Parker, Chuong T. Tran, Jenna R. Bedrosian, Siggi H. Arnason (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection