Apple snails (Ampullariidae) as agricultural pests: their biology, impacts and management.

This chapter reviews the taxonomy; habitat; morphology; mating, oviposition and fecundity; population dynamics and abundance; feeding behaviour; respiration; aestivation; temperature and salt tolerance; dispersal; distribution across South East Asia and other countries as a food item, aquarium animal and as a biological control agent of gastropods and weeds; importance as an agricultural pest of rice and other crops and as a vector of human pathogens; and chemical, biological (mainly predators) and cultural control of apple snails (Pomacea spp.).