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3 unusual facts about snail


Anguis

Snails are usually avoided, except when they are still very young and the shell can be broken easily.

Metre per hour

A Garden Snail for instance, typically moves at a speed of up to 47 metres per hour.

Species of The Saga of Seven Suns

These Nautilus/Snail like creatures are native to the sea world Rhejak and are so named for their numerous snakelike tentacles.


A. limosus

Amnicola limosus, the mud amnicola, an aquatic snail species found in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and along the Gulf of Maine

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.

Areop-Enap

In the darkness, Areop-Enap explored the clam's insides, and found a tiny snail (or in some accounts, a Triton's Horn shellfish).

Banff Springs snail

The Banff Springs snail was first identified in 1926 in the nine sulphurous hot springs of Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, and has been found nowhere else.

Bathymodiolus childressi

The snail Bathynerita naticoidea can detect beds of the mussel Bathymodiolus childressi.

C. africanus

Conus africanus, the African cone, a predatory sea snail species

C. chinensis

Calyptraea chinensis, the Chinese hat snail or Chinese hat shell, a small sea snail species found in North-West Africa, in the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Black Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Carolyn Meyer

Born as an only child in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Meyer began her first "novel," Humpy the Caterpillar and Gladys the Snail: A True Life Romance at age eight.

Catatropis johnstoni

It was first described in 1956 by Martin, who had found cercariae (a larval stage of a fluke) released by the snail Cerithidea californica in southwestern California.

Center versus periphery

In Kyoto, the capital of Japan around the time of the Edo period, there were as many as four different words for snail: dedemushi (ででむし), maimai (まいまい), katatsumuri (かたつむり), and tsuburi (つぶり).

Cleaves Wood

Other nationally scarce species include the snail Ena montana, the hoverfly Xanthogramma citrotasciatum, and a number of beetle species.

Cylindrus

Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833, is homonymous with the cone snail genus Cylindrus Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758.

Epiphragm

It protects certain species of snail if they are eaten by birds (such as Japanese White-eye).

FOXC2

EMT can be induced by a number of genes including Snail, Twist, Goosecoid, and TGF-beta 1.

Franz Hermann Troschel

A few of the species that contain his name are Troschel's sea star (Evasterias troschelii), Troschel's parrotfish (Chlorurus troschelii), Troschel's murex (Murex troschelii) and freshwater snail Bithynia troschelii.

George W. Hunter III

Hunter concentrated his research effort on that endemic problem, and by 1951 his team had eliminated it in the Nagatoishi district of Kurume City, Japan, using a landmark program of molluscicides to control the snail host.

Glaucus atlanticus

atlanticus preys on other, larger pelagic organisms: the dangerously venomous Portuguese Man o' War Physalia physalis; the by-the-wind-sailor Velella velella; the blue button Porpita porpita; and the violet snail, Janthina janthina.

Haloperoxidase

Murex snail bromoperoxidase (does not use I- or Cl-)

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud

Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801), a saltmarsh snail

Laportea aestuans

aestuans is a food plant for an edible snail, Archachatina ventricosa, native to parts of coastal West Africa.

Lavinia Nature Reserve

The reserve provides habitat for many birds and other animals, including the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot, the extremely rare King Island subspecies of the Brown Thornbill, and the Southern Hairy Red Snail.

Lord Howe flax snail

European Blackbirds and Song Thrushes (self-introduced around 1950) are also thought to be predators of the snail.

Marine Life of the Straits of Messina

Benthic species of importance are Pilumnus inermis, previously considered and which is exclusively Atlantic; Errina aspera (Hydrozoa), a famous endemic species of the Strait of Messina, on which lives a parasitic sea snail (Pedicularia sicula); found between 80 and 110 m.

Melania

Red-rimmed melania, small freshwater snail with an operculum, in the family Thiaridae

Microphallus

Microphallus pseudopygmaeus chemically castrates (parasitic castration) its host, the snail Onoba aculeus, and causes it to grow larger than normal (it is not clear if this gigantism benefits the host or parasite or if it is a non-adaptive side-effect).

Mid-August Lunch

Additionally, it won awards at several other film festivals including the David Di Donatello Awards, the Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival, and the Golden Snail award at the Academy of Food and Film in Bologna.

Minnesota Woman

The conch shell came from a snail species known as Busycon perversa, which had previously only been known to exist in Florida.

Mitchell's rainforest snail

This critically endangered snail is now largely restricted to a range of less than 5 km² of remnant lowland rainforest, scattered around the Tweed, Byron and Ballina Shires of northern New South Wales.

Mount Taylor period

Up to 99% of the volume of many Mount Taylor period middens consists of snail shells (including river snails and apple snails).

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.

N. minuta

Neohoratia minuta, a very small freshwater snail species endemic to Switzerland

Noisy Pitta

Its diet includes some fruit and it cracks open the shells of molluscs such as the giant panda snail (Hedleyella falconeri) on an anvil, a stone or other hard surface habitually used for this purpose.

O. fenestrata

Ocenebra fenestrata, the fenestrate oyster drill, a sea snail species in the genus Ocenebra found in South Africa

P. globulus

Pustularia globulus, a cowry, a sea snail species occurring in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean

Penescosta sororcula

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

Pesticides in Canada

For example, in Montague on Prince Edward Island, nine fish kills happened in one year: every fish, snake, and snail was killed in a river called Sutherland's Hole near potato farms from which herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides ran off after heavy rains.

Purbeck Marble

Its characteristic appearance comes from densely packed shells of the freshwater snail Viviparus.

S. nitida

Segmentina nitida, the shining ram's-horn snail, a freshwater snail species found in Europe

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.

Schistosoma ovuncatum

The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.

Snail Press Publications

In 2013, Snail Press will produce another large hardcover art book from America Martin entitled, “YES,” with selected works from 2009–2012, and a hardcover slipcase book entitled “Green Candle,” a series of essays by playwright Brian Torrey Scott.

Spirorchiidae

Some species of spirochiids are parasites of freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus.

T. laxa

Trabecula laxa, a sea snail species found in the Gulf of Mexico

T. palustris

Terebralia palustris, the mangrove whelk, a species of brackish-water snail in the family Potamididae.

Tutuila

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

Unintended

The song was featured on Trigger Happy TV during a skit in which a man, dressed in a snail suit, lay down on his stomach and inched across a street and also in another skit inside a cinema where many men dressed in tall wigs walk into the front row thus blocking the views of the audience behind them.

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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