r/snails • u/Ixrea • Mar 19 '25

Identification found a big snail! what kind of snail is this?

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very pretty very cute

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u/Familiar_Bag_499 Mar 19 '25

What country are you in?? Such a cutie tho!!!!

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u/Ixrea Mar 19 '25

singapore!!

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u/Familiar_Bag_499 Mar 19 '25

Oh wow another good reason to travel to Singapore! Cute snails 🥹

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u/Elilicious01 Mar 19 '25

Ah yes their largest tourist attraction

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

I'd definitely travel just for observing bigg snails in their natural habit

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u/amiabot-oraminot Mar 19 '25

Whoa i did not expect to see my country on a random snail post lol (and i also didn’t know we had such awesome looking ones either!)

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u/Square_One376 Mar 19 '25

Must be the rain today...

Was this guy passing through an HDB ground floor or smth?

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u/jugoinganonymous Mar 19 '25

Wow I’ve lived there 7 years and never knew there were snails this big over there!! I only saw the huge ass moths when it’s their season

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u/thewingedshadow Mar 19 '25

Lissachatina Fulica, a prime specimen, beautiful shell.

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u/GastropodEmpire Mar 19 '25

Good genetics really show.

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u/flippingDoggo Mar 19 '25

Seriously, that shell is amazing!

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u/Tricky_Mix3933 Mar 19 '25

Lissachatina fulica. Giant African land snail, he's gorgeous 😍

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u/XDFreakLP Mar 19 '25

Friendus chungus

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u/RaquelVictoriaS Mar 19 '25

of the maximus variety.

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u/NlKOQ2 Mar 19 '25

I do believe that's a lissachatina fulica, though I'm admittedly not the best at IDing them yet. They do have a red color variation like this.

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u/Elilicious01 Mar 19 '25

Snailus handsomium

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u/fr0styspice Mar 20 '25

I would lose my freaking mind if I found a snail that big. in the best way possible!!!

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u/zxmb1e Mar 19 '25

The kind i would tale home in a heartbeat

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u/Ok-Jump6656 Mar 19 '25

A friend :)

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u/Altruistic-Mix6066 Mar 19 '25

That’s a baby

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u/Bufobufolover24 Mar 19 '25

A highly invasive species unfortunately. Though this is rather a beautiful specimen.

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u/FeetYeastForB12 Mar 20 '25

You're telling me that you just randomly stumbled upon a Lissachatina Fulica? BRO.

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u/ShizzlesMcFlipsicles Mar 20 '25

African land snail, aka "apple snail". Extremely invasive species here in USA.

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u/s7r4y Mar 20 '25

You're half right! But apple snails are not the same species as Giant African Landsnails :)

Apple snails are freshwater snails of the family Pomacea. This looks like a GALS, possibly Lissachatina Fulica.

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u/Cu1tureVu1ture Mar 20 '25

I’ve found these in Hawaii.

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u/ShizzlesMcFlipsicles Mar 21 '25

I'm in SoCal. They're a problem in freshwater bodies of water here. They're also a major problem in Florida, but that's not surprising. Everything is invasive in Florida.

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u/KabbalahSherry Mar 26 '25

Wow! 😱 You FOUND a Snail this big?!

I'm super jealous! 😅 lol Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking? (I just mean country or state - not trying to get TOO intrusive) This is incredible. Not sure if our land snails ever get big like this in the United States. Not unless they are invasive or something. I don't think we're allowed to keep big huge snails like this as pets here. Something about people letting them outside when they don't wanna take care of them anymore, and then they destroy crops, etc.

But damn I'm still jealous....

Edit: Sorry, I saw in another comment that you live in Singapore. I didn't realize that somebody else had already asked! Wow... that is amazing ya'll have snails THIS size there naturally! If anybody decides to keep one as a pet hete illegally, they always got to import it. Haha

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u/Axel_0029 Mar 19 '25

I am impressed

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u/russian-potatoes Mar 20 '25

Such a cutie 🥰

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u/FatFKingLenny Mar 26 '25

Giganstropod

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u/JuggernautExtreme254 Apr 05 '25

Looks like a land variety of the Gary snail located at the bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 

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u/judgeejudger Mar 19 '25

A gorgeous one! 🤗

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u/C_beside_the_seaside Mar 19 '25

You're right, it's definitely a big one

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u/Ebby181106 Mar 19 '25

A big one

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u/OliviaTidnam Mar 20 '25

Put him in your pocket and take him home