page_title: Limicolaria flammea
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Limicolaria flammea / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: English: photo of three shells of Limicolaria flammea. Scale bar is 1 cm.
context_page_description: Limicolaria flammea is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
context_section_description: This species is native to West Africa: Nigeria.
  It was found as an introduced species in Tuas South, on the tropical island of Singapore, for the first time in 2006. The spread of Limicolaria flammea is potentially damaging to the multi‐billion dollar horticultural industry in Singapore. Malacologists have proposed the urgent eradication of this species in Singapore by handpicking; this is partly in order to prevent the spread of this species into the rest of tropical Asia based on the precautionary principle.
caption: Three shells of Limicolaria flammea of different ages, adult on the left. Scale bar is 1 cm.
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