X-Nico

10 unusual facts about gastropoda


Clibanarius vittatus

Like other hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc.

Dardanus venosus

As a hermit crab, it lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc and its soft abdomen and most of its limbs are normally hidden with just the dacryls, or claws, projecting.

Echinoderm

Echinoderms form part of the diet of many organisms such as bony fish, sharks, eider ducks, gulls, crabs, gastropod molluscs, sea otters, Arctic foxes and humans.

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa, Gastropoda, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda.

Fauna of Nicaragua

Many species of molluscs are indigenous to Nicaragua, including at least 79 species of terrestrial snails and slugs.

Forsån

Samples of bottom fauna taken in 1998 documented the presence of nationally rare species of gastropods such as Hippeutis complanatus and bivalve Swan mussel; and during the preceding decades two species of limnetic gastropods were documented.

Isleworth Ait

Two rare species of air-breathing land gastropods also live on the island, the two-lipped door snail Balea biplicata and the German hairy snail Pseudotrichia rubiginosa, as well as several rare species of beetles.

Orthasterias

The rainbow star is a predator and feeds on a range of invertebrates including gastropod molluscs, limpets, bivalves, brachiopods, chitons, barnacles and tunicates.

Pagurus prideaux

Like other hermit crabs, P. prideaux has an asymmetric, unarmoured abdomen and protects this by concealing it within the empty shell of a gastropod of appropriate size and shape, and carrying it around by clasping onto an internal part of the columella of the sea snail shell.

Philippe Bouchet

He is perhaps best known for his publication with with Jean-Pierre Rocroi which laid out a new taxonomy of the entire class Gastropoda, published in 2005.


Bull ray

The bull ray feeds on various invertebrates including crabs, hermit crabs, squids, prawns, gastropod molluscs and bivalve molluscs.

Diamantinasaurus

The Winton Formation had a faunal assemblage including bivalves, gastropods, insects, the lungfish Metaceratodus, turtles, the crocodilian Isisfordia, pterosaurs, and several types of dinosaurs, such as the theropod Australovenator, the sauropod Wintonotitan, and unnamed ankylosaurians and hypsilophodonts.

Euomphalidae

Euomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic marine molluscs which may be gastropods with anisostrophically coiled shells (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Thalassia testudinum

These include bivalves and other molluscs, polychaete worms, amphipods and juvenile fish which hide among the leaf blades, sea urchins, crabs and caridean shrimps.

Urticina crassicornis

Demasterias imbricata (Asteroidea) and Aeolidia papillosa (Gastropoda) are two notably frequent predator species.

Vladimir Pešić

Vladimir Pešić is a scientist from Montenegro, a biologist who is an expert on Hydrachnidiae, the water mites, and a co-author taxon authority for a new species of freshwater snail Valvata montenegrina Glöer & Pešić, 2008 (Valvatidae, Gastropoda).

Wintonotitan

The Winton Formation had a faunal assemblage including bivalves, gastropods, insects, the lungfish Metaceratodus, turtles, the crocodilian Isisfordia, pterosaurs, and several types of dinosaurs, such as the theropod Australovenator, the sauropod Diamantinasaurus, and unnamed ankylosaurians and hypsilophodonts.