Genus: Oxychilus
Common name: Glass snails
Family: Oxychilidae
Oxychilus draparnaudi, dark bodied glass snail
Oxychilus alliarius, garlic snail
Origin: Europe
Diet: Live and dead plants and other invertebrates and their eggs when available. O. draparnaudi is a predator on other invertebrates.
Behavior: When threatened or crushed, the garlic snail releases a garlic odor as a defense.
Where in Oregon: Widespread.
Similar exotics to look for: There are many similar snails in Oregon. Another less common species, O. cellarius, is known from Oregon. There are possibly six additional species of Oxychilus in Europe.
Diet: Live and dead plants and other invertebrates and their eggs when available. O. draparnaudi is a predator on other invertebrates.
Behavior: When threatened or crushed, the garlic snail releases a garlic odor as a defense.
Where in Oregon: Widespread.
Similar exotics to look for: There are many similar snails in Oregon. Another less common species, O. cellarius, is known from Oregon. There are possibly six additional species of Oxychilus in Europe.
Oxychilus alliarus, garlic snail
