Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail vs Jaggery palm

Aetholitis gerdesae compared with Caryota urens

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail	Jaggery palm
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Mollusca (Mollusks)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Gastropoda (Gastropoda)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Stylommatophora (Stylommatophora)	Arecales (Arecales)
Family	Camaenidae	Arecaceae
Genus	Aetholitis	Caryota
Species	Aetholitis gerdesae	Caryota urens

Conservation Status

Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail

LC — Least Concern

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail	Jaggery palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail

Habitat

Typically found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats including forests and freshwater.

Range

Found in Australia.

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail

The Bellenden Ker Scaly Snail (Aetholitis gerdesae) is a species in the genus Aetholitis. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats including forests and freshwater.