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Invasion of giant African alien land snail Lissachatina fulica (Férussac, 1821) in Sagar Island of India

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  • 1. Malacology Section, Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, India; tripathyb@gmail.com & Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Post Box # 18, Dehradun - 248007, Uttarakhand, India
  • 2. Malacology Section, Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, India; tripathyb@gmail.com
  • 3. Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Post Box # 18, Dehradun - 248007, Uttarakhand, India
  • 4. Paribesh Unnayan Parishad, Phulbaria, Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas - 743373, West Bengal, India

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Sajan, S. K., Tripathy, Basudev, Sivakumar, K., Khatun, Saheba (2018): Invasion of giant African alien land snail Lissachatina fulica (Férussac, 1821) in Sagar Island of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1): 100, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/119264, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/119264

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