 Pomacea sp. (Apple Snail). | I was surprised to find several striking pink egg masses on my dock today. They are eggs of an Apple Snail species. Apple snails are larger than most freshwater snails and "can be separated from other freshwater species by their oval shell which has the umbilicus (the axially aligned, hollow, cone-shaped space within the whorls of a coiled mollusc shell) of the shell perforated or broadly open. There are four species of Pomacea in Florida, one of which is native and considered beneficial." The others are considered invasive because of their voracious appetite for plants. University of Florida: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/apple_snails.htm wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullariidae |