Dongfeng snail is commonly known as "Hua snail", "Hai pig snail" and "Nanfeng snail" in Guangdong. Its meat is delicious, crisp and refreshing, and it is a very popular high-quality marine shellfish in domestic and foreign markets. The main species in China are Babylonia quadrata, Babylonia mud and Babylonia Taiwan Province.

The activity of Babylonia Babylonia has the habit of coming out at night, lurking in the sand and mud during the day and exposing the water pipe, and foraging around at night. The activity is crawling, and it can slide with the help of mucus secreted by the abdominal foot. Young snails cultivated indoors often climb out of the water and attach to the pond wall. Babylonia has obvious migration habit.

Extended information Guangdong disease control: "Babylonia orientalis" is dirty and poisonous, which can spread angiostrongyliasis.

Deng Zhuohui introduced that Angiostrongylus cantonensis was first discovered by Chinese parasitologists in the lungs of Guangzhou rats in 1933, and was first discovered in humans in 1945.

The African snail can be called the "representative" of the intermediate host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis-some can be as high as 60%, and some can have thousands of worms in their bodies. It is even reported that under the experimental conditions, African giant snails can infect people with Angiostrongylus cantonensis through damaged skin. Therefore, experts not only call for not eating African snails, but also do not recommend keeping them as pets.

There are also mollusks such as snails and slugs that are also at risk of being infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

What needs special explanation is that the African snail is commonly known as "Babylonia", but in fact it has stolen the scientific name of a conch, the real marine Babylonia, but it is commonly known as "Flower snail, Nanfeng snail and sea pig snail" by Laoguang, which is different from the so-called "Babylonia" on land. It is a marine shellfish with beautiful square spots, and few Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae are parasitic and survive. It can be safely eaten after boiled.

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People's Daily Online-Guangdong Disease Control: "Babylonia" is dirty and poisonous, which will spread Angiostrongylus disease.