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Agathotoma quadriseriata

Agathotoma quadriseriata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Amphibola crenata

Amphibola crenata (titiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.

Amphiscapha

Amphiscapha is a fossil gastropod mollusk, or less likely a monoplacophoran, genus from the Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian of North and South America, included in the family Euomphalidae.

Anticalyptraea

The name Anticalyptraea is a reference to the gastropod genus Calyptraea.

Australian land hermit crab

The preferred seashells of C. variabilis include Babylonia, Nerita, Phasianella, Thais, Tonna and Turban seashells.

Benthomangelia abyssopacifica

Benthomangelia abyssopacifica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Benthomangelia trophonoidea

Benthomangelia trophonoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

C. radians

Cellana radians, the golden limpet, a marine gastropod species found in seas around New Zealand and Australia

Cerithiopsidae

Cerithiopsidae are a family of very small and minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa.

Cerithiopsilla gaussiana

Cerithiopsilla gaussiana is a species of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.

Clavus viduus

Clavus viduus, common name the black-banded clava, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.

Coxiella

Coxiella (gastropod), genus of snails from saline lakes in the family Pomatiopsidae

Glyphostoma golfoyaquense

Glyphostoma golfoyaquense is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.

Glyphostoma granulifera

Glyphostoma granulifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.

Glyphostoma polynesiensis

Glyphostoma polynesiensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.

Glyphostoma purpurascens

Glyphostoma purpurascens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.

Gymnobela granulisculpturata

Gymnobela granulisculpturata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

H. aspersa

Helix aspersa, the garden snail, a pulmonate gastropod species

Himeroconcha lamlanensis

Himeroconcha lamlanensis is a species of gastropod in the Charopidae family.

Indian Knoll

The Busycon, Marginella, and Olivella shell species were imported from the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic coast, and were found at this site but rarely in burials which suggest they were probably considered valuable.

Ithycythara pentagonalis

Ithycythara pentagonalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Mangelia multilineolata

Mangelia multilineolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Marginellidae

Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Maritrema subdolum

The cercariae of M. subdolum emerge from the first intermediate host, a gastropod of the genus Hydrobia for example, and seek out the next host, a crustacean.

Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Mule Peninsula

Other fossil cetaceans have also been found in the area, as well as a fish, a diverse invertebrate fauna that includes molluscs, gastropods, marine diatoms, and Antarctica’s first Pliocene decapod crustacean.

Murdochella

Murdochella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Nystiellidae of the superfamily Epitonioidea, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies.

Nassariidae

Nassariidae, common name nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.

Notodiaphana fragilis

Notodiaphana fragilis is a species of marine snail, gastropod mollusk in the clade Architectibranchia.

Olivellidae

These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea, within the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi.

P. candida

Partula candida, an extinct gastropod species endemic to French Polynesia

P. compacta

Partula compacta, an extinct gastropod species endemic to French Polynesia

Pellolessertia

Its original genus name Avakubia was changed in 1929, because that name was preoccupied for a gastropod subgenus (Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919, Streptaxidae, Stylommatophora).

Penescosta sororcula

Penescosta sororcula is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

Perrona obesa

Perrona obesa, common name the obese turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

Pinnotheridae

Pea crabs are tiny soft-bodied crabs that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs (and the occasional large gastropod mollusc species in genera such as Strombus and Haliotis).

Protoconch

In some gastropod groups (such as the Architectonicidae), the teleoconch whorls actually spiral in the opposite direction to the protoconch.

Pyrgocythara subdiaphana

Pyrgocythara subdiaphana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Santa Marta Formation

Polychaete annelid worms such as Rotularia and gastropods such as the cerithiid sea snail Cerithium have also been discovered in beds within the formation.

Scandinavian prehistory

In Scandinavia, the time following the ice age begins at circa 9500 BC and is called at first the Yoldia Stage (after the Yoldia Sea, then the Ancylus Stage, after the Ancylus Lake in turn named after Ancylus fluviatilis, a small fresh-water gastropod from this time.

Serpulidae

Empty serpulid shells can sometimes be confused with the shells of a family of marine gastropod mollusks, the Vermetidae.

Solmundella bitentaculata

Solmundella bitentaculata feeds on the gastropod Limacina antarctica.

Strobilopsidae

Various pupillid genera also, such as Orcula (Orculidae) and Lauria (Lauriidae), have apertural armature during the neanic stage.

Typhlomangelia innocentia

Typhlomangelia innocentia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia principalis

Typhlomangelia principalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Xenodiscula taintori

Xenodiscula taintori is a species of air-breathing land snail, a gastropod in the family Sagdidae.

Zilpha

Mitromorpha zilpha, species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies


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