page_title: Pomacea canaliculata
section_title: Habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Pomacea canaliculata / Ecology / Habitat
caption_attribution_description: English: Pomacea canaliculata eggs are typically laid on vegetation above freshwater bodies of water.
context_page_description: Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
  South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top 100 of the "World's Worst Invasive Alien Species". It is also considered as about the 40th the worst alien species in Europe and the worst alien species of gastropod in Europe.
context_section_description: This species lives in freshwater lake, river, pond and swamp habitats and tolerates a wide range of temperatures. In natural settings, they rely on grasses and other emergent vegetation growing along the perimeter of bodies of water to lay their eggs. Where invasive, they can utilize crops such as rice and taro as a substrate for reproduction.
caption: Pomacea canaliculata egg masses are typically laid on emergent vegetation over freshwater bodies of water.
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