Pomacea canaliculata At St. Augustine Road Fish Management Area Page Four

    After depositing the initial egg clutch on 1/27/2008 the female spent the next five days actively exploring all aspects of the aquarium, and shortly after midnight on 2/1/2008, she once again crawled up the aquarium glass and deposited a second egg clutch which was roughly the same size as the one produced earlier (see below) . (see additional hatching experiment chronicled on the next page)

Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822)

Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822)

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