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unusual facts about land snail



Bembridge Beds

The Bembridge marls, freshwater, estuarine and marine clays and marls (70–120 ft.) rest upon the Bembridge limestone, a freshwater pool deposit (15–25 ft.), with large land snails (Amphidromus and Helix), freshwater snails (Planorbis, Lymnaea), and the fruits of Chara.

Xenodiscula taintori

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


see also

Angélique Arvanitaki

Arvanitaki contributed to the field of neurophysiology with research that explored the giant nerve fibres in genera of gastropods, the sea hare Aplysia and the land snail Helix.

C. arenaria

Catinella arenaria, the sandbowl snail, a small small air-breathing land snail species

C. turricula

Carelia turricula, an extinct land snail species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

Cobscook Bay

An invertebrate of special concern is the mystery snail (Vertigo paradoxa), an air-breathing land snail.

E. rosea

Euglandina rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or the cannibal snail, a large predatory air-breathing land snail species

Henry Crampton

Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to Moorea near Tahiti to study the land snail genus Partula, while years more were spent measuring and cataloguing his specimens.

O. glaber

Oxychilus glaber, an air-breathing land snail species found in the Czech Republic

Oparara River

The rare and protected Oparara Giant land snail (Powelliphanta annectens) has only been found in areas around 700m from the Oparara River.

Penescosta mathewsi

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

Penescosta sororcula

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

Suprapedal gland

For example in the suprapedal gland of the land snail Pomatias elegans there are three types of gland cells: cells producing mucoproteins, cells producing proteins and cells producing sulphated mucopolysaccharides.

Tutuila

Achatina fulica (Giant African land Snail) introduced in 1975 is reported to have damaged gardens.

V. gouldii

Vertigo gouldii, the variable vertigo, an air-breathing land snail species