Freshwater snails, or snails that live in rice fields. With the existence of the insole, the aquatic gastropods modules in Ampullariidae, most people in the Malay Archipelago call it Keong Mas.
this is due to the golden color of the shell and its shape that resembles a golden snail. Mas snails are found in rice fields and freshwater ponds.
Until now, the population of golden snails is difficult to control. Its herbivore nature is often considered a pest to rice plants in the fields where it lives.
This type of snail with a relatively fast population growth is quite disturbing aspects of agriculture and fisheries in Indonesia.
Golden snails are also able to adapt to various environmental conditions and are able to compete with other types of snails and local plants.
(But behind the assumption that lowland pests can also become poultry feed and shrimp feed, this is often used by duck layers and shrimp farmers in Aceh)
Gold snails are amphibians, because they have two means of breathing, namely gills and organs that resemble lungs. When in water, snails breathe with their gills and when on land use their lungs.
The air space is connected to the air above the water surface through a chiffon cloth formed by the mantle. The gills get oxygen from the water flowing through the mantle cavity and the lungs.
(conch eggs on rice stalks almost hatch)
(golden apple snail stick to rice stalks, perhaps one way they lay their eggs)
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