Bermuda Land Snail
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Bermuda land snails, scientific name Poecilozonites, are an endemic genus of pulmonate land snail in the family Gastrodontidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Scientists believe, that Poecilozonites have colonised the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda at least 300,000 years ago. It makes up 95% of Bermuda's terrestrial fossils. Only one other large pulmonate Succinea has been found - as a fossil.
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