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title: "Cuban Brown Snail"
description: "Zachrysia provisoria — Andere dieren. Zachrysia provisoria, the Cuban brown snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Zachrysiidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/cuban-brown-snail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cuban Brown Snail

> Zachrysia provisoria — Andere dieren. Zachrysia provisoria, the Cuban brown snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Zachrysiidae.

- Scientific name: *Zachrysia provisoria*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 6912
- Wikidata: [Q16993589](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16993589)
- iNaturalist taxon: [233921](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/233921)

## Names

- en: Cuban Brown Snail
- es: Caracol Marrón Cubano

## Countries with the most observations

US (4532), DO (246), JM (217), BS (161), AG (136), PR (133), BB (53), CU (52), KY (49), VI (41), GP (35), CW (27)

## Summary

Zachrysia provisoria, the Cuban brown snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Zachrysiidae.
This species is already established in the US and is considered a potentially serious threat as a pest or invasive species which could negatively affect agriculture, natural ecosystems, human health or commerce. Therefore, it has been suggested that this species be given top national quarantine significance in the US.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachrysia_provisoria

## Photo

![Cuban Brown Snail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cuban-brown-snail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dustin Minialoff · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20725668

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cuban-brown-snail?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).