I dont know any land snail to be toxic to humans, but there is some
evidence that they do have toxins.
There is a European land slug, Tandonia budapestentis, recently also
found in N America. It is thought to have to evolve toxins against
insect predators.
http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/63/4/541.pdf
Ümit KEBAPÇI
Kota Frederick W Schueler <[log in to unmask]>
> Martin H. Eastburn wrote:
>
>> The locals might not understand what or why but those touching the shell
>> might get very ill...
>
> * remember that toxic-plumaged Birds were unknown until they were
> discovered in New Guinea a few years ago...
> http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/12/the_evolution_of_poisonous_bir.php
> ...and since snails are chemical specialists, there's no a priori reason
> to suppose that some aren't acutely toxic to Peeople.
>
> fred.
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>>> *From:* John Varner <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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>>> *Subject:* Re: [CONCH-L] New questions
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>>> A friend who is a research biologist / arborist recently returned
>>> from Peruvian rainforest, where some of the locals had advised him
>>> not to handle one of the local landsnails because it was
>>> venomous. He said that the locals seemed to asiduously follow
>>> their own advice to him, though they didn't hesitate to handle
>>> other species of land snails.
>>> Does anyone know of Peruvian landsnails that are dangerous,
>>> either because they are venomous or vectors of disease?
>>>
>>> - John
>>>
>>>
>>>
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