I think because they live in trees and are particularly sticky, they're prone to being carried by birds.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe.

Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous distances by hitching rides on birds.

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands.