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(Apple) Snail-related sites

Apple snail information

• Apple snail (Pomacea) dissection guide
  An on-line guide that explains how an apple snails should be dissected completely, with a main goal to learn more about invertebrate anatomy. This guide is fairly detailed and complete, including excellent illustrations.
• Marisa spec. (Giants ramshorn) information
  Experiences from Renate Husmann with the apple snail Marisa cornuarietis. This site is written in German, and includes some great photographs and contains relatively detailed info.
• Marisa cornuarietis information provided by Hans Wouters.
  Another interesting website about Marisa cornuarietis. This time by Belgian guy, Hans Wouters. The site is both in Dutch as well in English.
• Great homepage with experiences and tips about keeping (apple) snails
  Andi writes about her experiences with different apple snail species. Easy to follow and comprehensive care guide. Go to the 'Animals and pets' section.
• Biologischen Tests mit Marisa cornuarietis zur Erfassung von Umweltchemikalien mit geschlechtshormonähnlicher Wirkung
  German research page (written in German language), with focus on the endocriene effects of various chemical substances.
• Site with nice pictures of Pomacea diffusa (?)
  However, the snails on the photographs do look more like Pomacea canaliculata.
• Pomacea diffusa outdoor breeding experiment in Europe
  The results of in out-door experiment written in English and Czech. It proves that you can breed apple snails in Europe, albeit only during the summer months.
• Some nice (hu?) recipes for cooking (your) apple snails
  While not everyone is pleased with this info, apple snails are edible and her you can find some interesting recipes. (They seem to taste a bit chewy like cuttle-fish).
• "Ampullaria, el caracol manzana" by José L. Blanco
  A page with general apple snail information for the aquariist (in Spanish).
  Unfortunately this text contains many classic misconceptions regarding apple snails. In this text, the aquatic respiration is due to skin respiration, but the gills are completely neglected.
  Even worse is the assumption that apple snails are hermaphroditic, which they are certainly not.
• The one and only apple snail cam
  Every week fresh photographs of apple snails. Also contains info about keeping and breedng these snails.
• Photographs of Pomacea maculata
  Some photographs of both the shell and the eggs of the largest freshwater snail, Pomacea maculata.
• Allozyme Variability in South Florida Apple Snails
  A study about the population genetics of South Florida's and Cuba's apple snails (Pomacea paludosa). The research eventually may be used to determine the likelihood that Florida's apple snail population was founded by a Cuban population.
• Ecological studies of apple snails
  A study about the Florida apple snail (Pomacea paludosa, Say) population in the Florida wetlands by Philip C. Darby, Patricia L. Valentine-Darby, Robert E. Bennetts, Jason D. Croop, H. Franklin Percival, and Wiley M. Kitchens of the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida.
• AGW (www.wirbellose.de) appelsnail-Site
  A German page (non-English) page about apple snails. Care, breeding and other general info for the aquarist.
• The snails from the spencer family
  Homepage with great photographs of the apple snails. Contains great info about shell repair and more useful info.
• Arty the Snail
  A illustrated story about an apple snail. Geared toward children, but adults may find the many pictures of my snails to be interesting.

Apple snail invasion - pest management

• Apple Snails in Wetland Taro Production
  Basic info about Apple snails in Hawaii and methods to control their population.
• Some Hawaii pests arrived by invitation (article)
  Invasion of the (Pomacea) apple snail inHawaii.
• Aquatic Species Introductions Database
  Database with species introduction info. Search with "Pomacea" for apple snail spreading.
• The Parable of the Golden Snail
  A frightening story about genetical 'improved' rice seeds. The apple snail invasion in the Philippines is used here as example to warn that these new technologies are not always beneficial for the farmers. 
• Socio-economic aspects of apple snail invasion in Asia (article)
  Invasion of the (Pomacea) apple snail in the rice fields of Asia.
• Fish farming in Vietnamese rice fields fights golden apple snail pest
  Includes the methods used to control the snail population.
• Golden Apple Snail
  A radio interview about the possible invasion of the Golden Apple Snail in Australia. This snail, which is originally from South America was introduced into Asia through the aquarium trade It was then also promoted as a potential food source for humans Now it's in plague. This danger is now treatening Australia.
• Keeping predator snails at bay
  New techniques and advances in the battle against the Golden Apple Snail in South-East Asia. The results indicate that extracts from the leaves and the stem from Ximenia americana kills the snails at low dosages, while leaving other species unharmed.
• Un sudamericano invade Asia
  Article in Spanish about the invasion of Pomacea canaliculata into Asia. This article was written by María Cristina Damborenea y Gustavo Darrigran and published in CienciaHoy, Volumen 11 - Nº 66 Diciembre 2001/ Enero 2002.
• Mississippi emergence apple snail regulation
  From the bureau of plant and apiary inspection: legal notes and regulations regarding apple snails in the United States. A must read if you are into apple snail trade...
• History and Status of Applesnail (Pomacea spp.) introductions in Texas
  Robert G. Howells from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department made a very nice historical survey about the Pomacea invasion in Texas.
  

General snail sites with apple snail information

• General aquatic snail info in French/ Portuguese and English
  A general aquatic snail page, mainly targetted at the aquarium hobiist, contains also info on apple snails by Gerald Depaus.
• Environmental impacts of gher farming
  The CARE International confederation: Bangladesh; Gher farmers have traditionally use the meat from the freshwater Apple Snail (Pila globosa) as a feed for prawns.
• Romanian aquarium website.
  Informative aquarium website in the Romanian language.
• The trail of the snail
  Information about landsnails,freshwatersnails and slugs.With snailpoetry,snails in literature,snails as pets,a description of species and links.
• Classification of Molluscs, also info on the apple snail
  Note: Here the family name Pilidae is used instead of Ampullariidae.
• Molluscan pictures, snails from Singapore and Malaysia
  One of the better websites on snails, with a large collection of photographs on land, sea and freshwater snails. Local occuring Ampullariidae snails are also covered.
• General snail information site
  With an interesting Ampullariidae section with great pictures of several species.
• Nice conchology site with many pictures of available shells.
  Contains some Ampullariidae shell pictures.
• Field guide to the freshwater snails in Florida
  The Freshwater Snails of Florida, A Manual for Identification University of Florida.
• Site with general aquatic snail info
• Peter and Vicki's website
  Contains many beautiful Pomacea diffusa photographs. These photographs show the snails in an aquarium together with fish (betta's, cory's and neon tetra's).
• The Snail Lovers Message Board
  Exchange information, tips and experiences with other 'snail lovers'.
• Green Water & Infusoria
  Betta breeders use Infusoria, Green water, micro worms and or Vinegar Eels for the first food for fry. These infusiora are expelled with the feaces of apple snails and besides making the water cloudy, they can be beneficial as well.
• Key to Aquatic Gastropods of Hawaii
  This site also uses (with permission) some illustrations of the Apple snail website to differentiate between Pomacea diffusa and Pomacea canaliculata.
• Ampulaires, Mélanoides, Planorbes et Physes
  A Great French website by Vincent LAFON with information about various freshwater snails. With snail videos as well.
• Rejati Reptiles
  A homepage about snails, snakes and lizards, with a pictures and info.
• Robyn's Snail Page
  A page on aquarium and pond snails.
• Helen Racz Lorenz: Showcase from Uruguay
  On this website on an see and order very nice shell of many molluscs, including apple snails.

General mollusc information

• Man and Mollusc
  The Resource Site for Students, Educators, and anyone wanting to learn more about the fascinating world of, the Molluscs.
• The Living World of Molluscs
  A good starting place for general mollusc information.
  From: The Reefkeeper's Guide to Invertebrate Zoology.
• Mollusc information (Mollusca List server)
  Discussion forum on mollusc topics.
• Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods
  Huge snail species database with lot's of pictures.
• Andy Gibb's snail page
  Some general snail links and info.
• Aquaria snail FAQ
  Some general aquarium snail related questions and answers.
• Aquatic snails from Belgium.
  Promising site focused at Belgian water snails.
• Eye to Eye With Garden Snails.
  Lesson plans for students.
• Japanese shell database.
  Accessable in English and Japanese.
• Snail rearing
  All you want to know about snail farming techniques, i.e. heliciculture.
• Escargot Ello's
  A Brasilian website about Helix Aspersa. Contains information, recipes and beautiful photographs about these edible 'escargots'.
• Heather's snail website
  Interesting website with good photographs of some common freshwater snails. The description of the snail-behaviour is excellent and shows how well the author observes her snails.

Musea and collections

• University of Alaska museum (UAM)
  Aquatic Collection.
• University of Arkansas museum (ARK)
  380 lots of land snails (AR) (more to be curated), plus various unionids from the state.
• California Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  Invertebrate Zoology and Geology. 290.000 lost of molluscs. The marine collection is in the eastern Pacific with world-wide coverage in some groups. Freshwater and terrestrial specimens are mostly from western North America.
• The Natural History Museum of Los Angles County (LACM)
  Section of Invertebrate Zoology. 470.000 lots of mollusks. Marine molluscs mainly of the Eastern Pacific from Alaska to Chile.
• University of Colorado Museum (UCM)
  40,600 lots.  The collection is world-wide in scope, about half marine species, a quarter freshwater species, and the remainder terrestrial forms.
• Florida Museum of Natural History (UF)
  275.000 specimen-lots. The collection is worldwide in its coverage with major holdings from North America, Middle America, South America, the western Pacific, southeast and southern Asia.
• University of Georgia (UGAMNH)
  Museum of Natural History. Freshwater: 35% - all are from the US, 3/4 are from the southeast. marine: 59% - about 1/2 are from Georgia, the other 1/2 are worldwide examples from each mollusc family.
• Bishop Museum (BPBM)
  240.000 lots. Terrestrial mollusks make up about two-thirds of the collection, and with many Hawaiian and Pacific species.
• Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH)
  300.000 lots, 68% terrestrial lots, 18% marine and 14% freshwater.
• Chicago Academy of Sciences (CA)
  60.000 specimens in 20.000 lots. 10% of the collection consists of tropical species, but the vast majority of the specimens are Midwest snails and clams, many collected by Frank C. Baker from 1892-191.
• Illinois State Museum (ISM)
  7598 freshwater bivalves (most dry) and 322 marine bivalves and gastropods (dry).
• Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ)
  320.000 catalogued specimen-lots and approximately 300.000 uncatalogued specimen-lots. Worldwide collection. 45% marine, 25% freshwater, and 30% terrestial molluscs.
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ)
  Over 250.000 catalogued lots of dry specimens,  at least 5.000 uncatalogued lots of wet specimens.
• American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
  305,000 catalogued specimen lots of mollusks (or total holdings of approximately 325,000 lots of mollusks), worldwide in scope: marine, land and freshwater.
• Paleontological Research Institution (PRI)
  23,000 lots. Strength in freshwater bivalves of the United States and marine mollusks of the Caribbean.
• North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM)
  6-8.000 molluscan specimens. Molluscs from the Atlantic slope drainage systems, particularly in the Carolinas.
• Ohio State University (OSM)
  Museum of Biological Diversity. 56.231 lots, 362.310 specimens.
• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP)
  478.000 catalogued lots containing about 12 million specimens, including 30.000-35.000 lots preserved in ethanol. specimens from all over the world. The collection is about 75% gastropods, 23% bivalves, and 2% chitons, <1% other classes; 50% are marine, strongest in shallow water marine mollusks from the tropical Indo-Pacific and the Western Atlantic. 30% terrestrial worldwide; 20% freshwater strongest in North America and Southeast Asia.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM)
  96.122 lots of mollusks, an estimated 3.3 million specimens. This primarily freshwater and terrestrial collection is worldwide with emphasis on Neartic and Neotropical species; 67% are gastropods, 32% bivalves, 1% chitons, and 1% other classes.
• Houston Museum of Natural Science
  45.000 lots. 40% of the collection from Northest Gulf of Mexico; 60% consists of world-wide marine, and both freshwater and terrestrial mollusks from Texas.
• University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
  13.000 lots of recent and fossil specimens. 70% of the materials are terrestrial gastropods, 25% freshwater molluscans (including unionaceans), and 5% marine forms. Geographic coverage is mostly for New Mexico (about 80%), but there also are significant holdings for Kansas, Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
• Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH)
  2.8% (35 lots) of the mollusk collection is comprised of terrestrial gastropods;  97.2% (about 2.000 lots with about 15.000 specimens) are freshwater.
• Thomas Burke Memorial Museum (UW)
  100.000 catalogued specimens and approximately 50.000 uncurated specimens. Mostly marine shells; mainly marine Pacific, but the collections include worldwide marine representation.
• National Museum of Natural History (USNM)
  2.320.000 lots. Worldwide collection of 850,000+ catalogued specimen-lots and 12,000 primary type lots. Strength of the collection is in the marine and freshwater faunas.
• Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM)
  186,000 accessioned specimens from 246 families. 18,000 of these specimens have been collected within Wisconsin. 57.000 specimens are freshwater and 16.000 are terrestrial.
• Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
  50.000 species lots with 300.000 specimens. Focus on eastern Canada. About 75% of the material is freshwater and terrestrial, but there is a rich representation of marine species, especially from Canadian coastal waters.
• Canadian Museum of Nature (NMC)
  100.000 lots in the dry collection (shells) about 25.000 fluid-preserved lots; about 30% are land and freshwater molluscs (30.000-40.000 lots), mostly from Canada and U.S. - including 6.000 - 7.000 lots of freshwater clams (Unionidae).
• Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (IGM)
  7.500 specimens including (holotypes, paratypes, syntypes). Geographic collection: the states of the Mexican Republic mainly of Cretaceous age.
• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (IRSNB)
  9 million specimens arranged in more than 700.000 lots.
• Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC)
  The collection of molluscs is one of the more important of the large, old collections in Europe.
• The Natural History Museum (BMNH)
  Division of Invertebrates, London, England.
• Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
  Laboratoire de Biology des Invertebres Marins et Malacologie.
• The Australian Museum (AMS)
  The mollusc collection is one of the world's largest, covering all groups of Recent and Tertiary molluscs.

Other

• Giant African Land Snails
  Information about Giant African Land snails: faq, anatomy, pictures and links.

 

Various invertebrate-related sites

• Crustacea: A beautiful website with valuabe information about these critters.
  Well worth to visit!
• Red Clawed Crabs
  Website with practical information about red clawed crabs in the aquarium by Annette Berkelmann.
• Invertebrates / critters in the aquarium
  Slimy critters or strange worms in the tank?

Fish / Aquarium / Pond sites

• Aquatics Review
  This site has been developed to enable people to review their local Aquatics Retailer. The shop can be rated on various qualities from Fish Variety to Staff Helpfulness, giving people the chance to find a local shop that best suits their needs.Also on the site is a Clubs section, and an Events guide.
• Aquarianen Gent
  The website from Aquarianen Gent, a Belgian Aquarium hobby club.
• AquariumFish.net
  AquariumFish.net selsl tropical fish, goldfish, snails, and lots of other stuff for fish bowls, aquariums, and ponds. This site also has lots of practical information.
• Aquarismo Online
  Site for Freshwater aquarium, fishes, invertebrates, plants, board discussions, articles, downloads and more.
• Aquascape
  Good basic information about: filtration, tank setup, water quality and more by Ryan Mackintosh.
• A site with lot of aquaria related info and excellent links
• Cichlidresearch
  A web site dedicated to collaboration between scientists and hobbyists interested in the fish family Cichlidae, featuring extensive information about cichlids, plus the online science experiment known as the Cichlid Egg Project.
• Südamerikanische Wasserpflanzen
  Very well done German site about South American waterplants.
• Lots of fish related links here at the Fishlinkcentral
• Laboratory Strain Guppies
  The home page of Harald Auer, mainly targeted at lab guppies.
• Medications For the Aquarist
  Looking for medication? Also contains info about the active ingredients.
• Nonindigenous Diseases and Parasites of Fishes
  Parasites on (or in) your fish?
• HAPPY PONDING
  A webpage targetted a at pond-keepers. By MIKE and MELISSA.
• Informatiecentrum voor aquarium - terrarium & vijver liefhebbers (Dutch)
  Een zeer uitgebreide website met veel bruikbare informatie over talrijke onderwerpen. Rijkelijk geillustreerd.
  
• AquaBase.org
  La base de donnees aquariophile collaborative, Venez partager vos connaissances...
  A French website with a lot of information. Definately worth to take a look at.
• All about fishtanks and ponds
  All about fishtanks and ponds. With special attention to the Japanese Koi.
• Aquarismo Online
  Site for Freshwater aquarium, fishes, invertebrates, plants, board discussions, articles, downloads and to much! (Portuguese)
• Aquarium, Terrarium en Vijver Startpagina
  Alle Aquarium, Terrarium en Vijver links.
• Aquaplant Chile
  Fomentando el Acuarismo en Chile (Temas sobre Plantas, Peces, Invertebrados, Acuario Dulce y Marino).
• Pandora's aquarium
  A website with good basic care information. A good starting point for aquarium beginners and a very interesting fish disease section.
• Aqua archief, aquarium tips, links, berekeningen, chat, forum, advertenties (Dutch)
  Dutch Aquarium site: Aquarium artikelen en tips over vissen, planten, problemen, techniek, visziekten, voer en waterchemie. Maak berekeningen, plaats advertenties, artikelen en tips..

 

Other (non-snail related items) personal interest of the author

• Slashdot.org
  Nerd or geek? Well, anyway interested in science, computer, technics etc... the place to be.
• Linuxtoday.com
  For all the news from the Linux community.
• Freshmeat Linux Software
  Looking for the latest software?
• Linux.org
  The linux main page.
• Tomshardware.com
  The latest in-dept hardware information.
• Dreamer Web
  And now something completely...
• Stichting de Digitale Stad
  The previous sponsor of this project.
  
• Shattil/Rozinski Photography
  The source for beautiful nature photographs with many stunning images.
• Joanne Williams Photography
  A large on-line collection of beautiful nature photographs. Also contains photographs of the apple snail kite and a limpkin eating an apple snail. Best of all, these photographs can be bought in high resolution versions for reprint.

 

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