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A serious and worrying malacological conflict of conservation is present today in Brazil (and other South American countries): on behalf of public funding carried forward in and attempt to control and eradication of the vast Brazilian territory of exotic invasive African snails Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica, representative of the Family ACHATINIDAE Swainson, 1840, controversially together large and medium endemic native terrestrial snails, currently in evident situation of threatened extinction, are being indiscriminately decimated for the population as a result of public alarmist campaigns (Photo slide).
The conservation status of native continental mollusks and the parallel occurrence of invasive alien species in the southern region of the country, by example, have been subjected to recent extensive discussions and questions.
Today, the exotic invasive Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica is present in all Brazilian territory, and the Atlantic Slop of the Southern Cone already settled in the...