#4840 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Rosy Wolfsnail
Euglandina rosea
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what is it?
Euglandina rosea , common names the rosy wolfsnail or the cannibal snail , is a species of medium-sized to large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae. This species is a fast and voracious predator, hunting and eating other snails and slugs. The rosy wolfsnail was introduced into Hawaii in 1955 as a biological control for the invasive African land snail, Achatina fulica .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,275 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1821 (205 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rosy Wolfsnail
- scientific name
- Euglandina rosea
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Spiraxidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,275
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1821 by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121012, Wikidata Q2710885, GBIF 2294109, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.