Talk:Ampullariidae

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Pomaceae
Pomaceae is a plant family, also called Malaceae and Pyraceae, nowadays usually treated as a subfamily (Maloideae, Pomoideae, Pyroideae) of the family Rosaceae. I'm not sure that it's legitimate for gastropods - uses may be errors for the genus Pomacea, and the family name based on that genus would normally be Pomaceaceae, not Pomaceae.

Hence I think that redirect from Pomaceae to here should be reconsidered. Lavateraguy 13:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The name of the article was changed some time ago now. Invertzoo (talk) 22:25, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Taste
How do they taste? Like meat, like fish?--92.74.22.197 (talk) 00:14, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Official Ban On The Importation Of Apple Snails
Apple snails of the genus Pomacea to be probihited in entire EU.

Apple snail imports to be banned in UK. Because they have been found to be able to survive in Spain (Pomacea insularum, delta of river Ebro), all Apple Snail species are now illegal to import into the UK, but not to keep yet.

Following last month's news article, we are sad to announce that Apple Snails, a long standing favourite of many tropical freshwater fishkeepers, are now to offically become just a fond memory for all European Aquarists.

As previously reported, a population of snails were found in the Catalonia region of Spain, and as a result the EU Commission have finally imposed the legislation banning the import and breeding of all members of the Genus Pomacea, which includes the familiar tropical Apple Snails.

Unfortunately Apple Snails already have a reputation for invasiveness, having made themselves at home in both Hawaii and Taiwan where they are a serious pest to food crops.

http://riccardoscalera.blogspot.dk/2012/11/does-this-snail-look-sufficiently-alien.html

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION 2012/697/EU of 8 November 2012 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the genus Pomacea (Perry)

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:311:0014:0017:EN:PDF

--79.251.122.33 (talk) 00:55, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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Article needs updated
This article does not appear to use sources any more recent than 2009. However, Ampullariidae has undergone some changes since then. See Cowie 2015. Significant changes that would need to be made to this article include that Afropominae is no longer an accepted taxon. Actually, Cowie 2015 does not consider Ampullariidae to have have any subfamilies or tribes. --Equivamp - talk 00:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Further to the comment above, I'm encountering confusion in some forums over the terms Apple Snail and Mystery Snail. One person has told me they are told a Mystery Snail grows to around 3 inches whilst an Apple Snail to the size of a soft ball. I note that the introduction of this article makes no mention of the term "Apple Snail" but does mention "Mystery Snail" but then further down the article it uses the term "Apple Snail" almost exclusively having not mentioned the term as a name for this creature beforehand. This has left me a tad confused having bought something labelled as an "Apple Snail" and come agoogling for information. I also note mentions of a ban in the UK but no mention of this ban seeming to have been lifted in 2021 due to changes after Brexit, though I fear posting anything myself for lack of expertise on the matter. --APBarratt - talk 14:55, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I have updated the article with a reference to an article from Aquatic Eden to clarify that Apple Snails are the common name and that Mystery Snails are in fact a species of Apple Snail. I'd appreciated if anyone could check my adjustments as I'm fairly new to the concept of editing Wikipedia articles so may have made mistakes in doing so. A. P. Barratt (talk) 10:02, 12 July 2023 (UTC)