About Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguière, 1789)
Bulimulus guadalupensis is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk that belongs to the subfamily Bulimulinae. Its specific epithet guadalupensis is named for Guadeloupe, a West Indian island. According to 1974 research by Breure, this species probably originated in the Windward Islands. Today it can be found across the entire Caribbean Basin, and this range also includes Florida. It has been introduced to multiple islands including Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. On the island of Dominica, Breure only recorded the species from a single locality in 1974: Roseau's Botanical Gardens. However, Angas reported the species as "abundant on the lower slopes" in 1884, and it is now widely distributed across disturbed lowland habitats throughout Dominica. This is a highly variable species.
