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Article written by: duddy on Jan 5, 2014



Title: Colourful candy-striped land snail
Written by: duddy on Jan 5, 2014

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This is the colourful candy-striped land snail (Liguus virgineus), and it’s only found on Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba. For years its colourful shell made a popular souvenir for travellers visiting these Caribbean islands, but now a law forbids people from harvesting the shells and selling them.