Orthalicus reses
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Orthalicus reses, the Stock Island tree snail or the Florida tree snail, is a species of large tropical air-breathing tree snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.
Stock Island, Florida is one of the places in which O. reses is known to occur.
Tropical hardwood hammock
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Tropical hardwood hammocks are closed canopy forests, dominated by a diverse assemblage of evergreen and semi-deciduous tree and shrub species, mostly of West Indian origin. Tropical hardwood hammocks
Orthalicus reses
…reses reses arrived in the Lower Keys. Historically, the Stock Island tree snail was believed to have a very limited distribution, being found only in tropical hardwood hammocks on Stock Island and Key West; although it may have been found in other hammock areas in the Lower Keys. The distribution has since been artificially…
Mahogany Hammock Trail, an accessible tropical hardwood hammock in Everglades National Park