I haven't been able to find a good natural history book on Puerto Rico so I cannot give you proper names of all the plants and critters I am seeing. Maybe I'll find either a book or spend some time searching later.
We saw this very large land snail perched on a tree in El Yunque yesterday.
This shot is posted for my blog contact A Snail's Eye View down in Melbourne, Australia who has a scientific interest in such creatures.
We are cruising the south coast of Puerto Rico today so I should have more interesting photos to post soon. We're also moving from rain forest to desert so expect a cactus or two.
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I'm pretty sure it belongs to the family Camaenidae. I'm not hugely familiar with the snails in that part of the world but it will be a Polydontes, Caracolus or Pleurodonte. I think a bunch of them have been introduced into Florida. (Which doesn't help with the ID at all, but I thought I'd mention it!)
Cool! Makes me hungry:-)
Wow, what a snail!
Another great shot!
I'm from Puerto Rico. I have a friend that was conducting a research with these guys and it is a Caracolus caracola. I'm pretty sure of it, because I helped her to collect more than a hundred of these guys.
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