Golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk of the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails, native to South America. Introduced widely across Asia, the Pacific and elsewhere, often originally for the aquarium trade or as a food crop, it has become one of the world's most damaging invasive species, ranked among the world's worst invasive alien species and considered the worst alien gastropod established in Europe, where it devastates rice paddies and other wetland vegetation.
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1. Wikipedia: Pomacea canaliculata
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Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
system (entity description states it plainly, relationship to people)
Introduced widely across Asia, the Pacific and elsewhere, often originally for the aquarium trade or as a food crop, it has become one of the world's most damaging invasive species, ranked among the world's worst invasive alien species and considered the worst alien gastropod established in Europe, where it devastates rice paddies and other wetland vegetation.
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View the Source2. Golden Apple Snail (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q2005098 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
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