Help with identification please!

[davemangham]

Hi there!

I'm new to this site and found it because I was trying to identify some snails I'd photographed.

I was recently lucky enough to visit Barbados, where I photographed the 3 species below. Unfortunately, there seems to be little, or no information that I can find on the web to help me with an i.d. (unless I'm looking in the wrong places).

I wondered whether there was anyone out there with the expertise to i.d. them for me, or to point me in a direction that might assist me in my quest?

Thanks

Dave

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[davemangham]

Sorry about this, I didn't realise that I was restricted to 1 attachment per post!

Here is the second - shell diameter was about 3/4 inch.

For the first example shell diameter was approx 1 and 1/4 inches.

No 3 to follow...

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[davemangham]

...and No 3.

For this guy the shell diameter was only about 1cm.

Thanks in anticipation

Dave

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[AlienSnail]

Hiya, and welcome to the forum, Dave

Nice snails there. Number 2, the brown one, looks like a Pleurodonte isabella. I can 't say for definite but it looks very likely.

I'm not sure about the others. I will ask around if no-one can identify them soon for you.

[davemangham]

Thanks Alien (hope you don't mind me using your first name so soon).

I'd appreciate any asking you can do. I don't know how successful this quest is going to be as I found out today that there has NEVER been a proper survey of land snails on Barbados, or if there has, the government of Barbados is unaware of it! Who knows what might be out there!

Dave

[choco]

Hi Dave, I've asked someone very knowledgeable for some help identifying these snails - will let you know any results

[davemangham]

Thanks Choco,

I really appreciate all the help that forum members are providing.

Dave

[AlienSnail]

Been chatting with Choco and we think it's worth asking a couple of other people too, so I'm about to contact them.

It's interesting about the lack of studies on the local snails. There is a wealth of information just ready to be found it seems.

[Kevin]

the 1st one may be an Orthalicus, or Drymaeus species, Im not sure what species the last one is.

[choco]

Heard back from my contact


First one is an Orthalicus of some kind, as Kevin suspected.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthalicus


Second one is a Pleurodonte isabella.


Third one is a Helicina species.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicina


He's going to try and identify the Orthalicus and Helicina more specifically.

[davemangham]

Thank you both, Kevin and Choco.

I await with my breath bated!

Dave

[AlienSnail]

Thank you very much Choco, and thank you to your contact