"[Golden apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata)] can completely regrow a functional eye within months of having one amputated, Accorsi and colleagues report August 6 in Nature Communications.""

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/snail-human-eye-regeneration

#Snails #AppleSnails #Biology #Regeneration #Eyes

Parasite of the Day: Bothrigaster variolaris
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/08/bothrigaster-variolaris.html

"#SnailKites, as you might have ingenuously guessed from the name, eat #snails! #AppleSnails (Pomacea spp.), to be precise. #Trematodes in the Cyclocoelidae family use snails as their hosts for the larval stage, meaning when those snails are eaten, little baby trematodes get to grow up into a mature adult in the body of whatever ate the snail (usually birds)."

Golden Apple #Snail (#Pomacea diffusa).

Back in 2021, we discovered a feral population of these exotic #AppleSnails living in the waterways of urban #Mumbai,.

Well established in Mumbai, and quite possibly, other parts of India, owing to irresponsible aquarists releasing them in local water bodies, they do not, fortunately, compete with native aquatic #molluscs, and are therefore not a threat to our (already imperiled) aquatic #ecosystems

📄 ☛ https://rb.gy/waelcq

#invasivespecies #snails