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unusual facts about snails



Alvinocarididae

C. vandoverae is often found with mussels and snails of the genus Alviniconcha.

Artyfechinostomum malayanum

The known first intermediate host of Artyfechinostomum malayanum include freshwater snails Indoplanorbis exustus and Gyraulus convexiusculus.

Aylacostoma

These snails used to live in areas of white water in the Yacyretá Rapids, Paraná River, feeding on the algae that grow attached to the rocks on the bottom.

Bolinus brandaris

Bolinus brandaris (originally called Murex brandaris by Linnaeus), and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, an edible marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails.

Chytra kirki

The specific name kirki is in honor of explorer John Kirk (1832-1922), who has donated various other specimen of snails (not this species) to the Natural History Museum.

Circulatory system of gastropods

In the freshwater Planorbid snails, however, the haemocyanin is replaced by haemoglobin, and thus their haemolymph is red rather than blue.

Coxiella

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

Drilus flavescens

They live on the ground in the shells of snails (frequently Fruticicola fruticum O. F. Müller, 1774), feeding of the inhabitants, previously killed with a poisonous bite and sucked in with the help of digestive enzymes.

Environmental impact of reservoirs

This holds true especially in tropical areas where mosquitoes (which are vectors for malaria) and snails (which are vectors for Schistosomiasis) can take advantage of this slow flowing water.

Ferdinand von Hochstetter

Several other species bear his name in their scientific names, including the Takahe, Porphyrio hochstetteri, and Powelliphanta hochstetteri, a species (with five subspecies) of New Zealand's giant carnivorous land snails.

Giraudia

Giraudia Bourguignat, 1885 – a synonym of Bridouxia, a genus of freshwater snails in the family Paludomidae

Golden Fleece

The purple dye extracted from snails of the Murex and related species was highly prized in ancient times.

Grove snail

Balanced polymorphism could arise when a predator like the Song Thrush has a given 'search image', so it tends to see and kill snails of a particular colour and pattern.

Hedgehogs in New Zealand

Hedgehogs prey on the endangered, endemic giant snails (Powelliphanta), the endemic weta species, and various other native invertebrates.

Hydroides

Parasites of Hydroides include sea snails from the genus Fargoa.

Hyposmocoma pupumoehewa

The larvae have been observed feeding on snails of the Tornatellides genus.

Hypostomus plecostomus

Their role is better filled in the average hobbyists aquarium by invertebrates such as Caridina multidentata and various species of snails, or simply with regular maintenance with an algae scraping implement.

Jamaican slider

Typical omnivores, feeding on a variety of fruits particularly Pond-apple (Annona glabra) and other vegetation, small fish, snails, frogs, aquatic invertebrates, carrion and may even attack young birds if left defenseless.

James Kealoha Beach

This name refers to the drupe shells, whose snails were commonly eaten and found throughout the Hawaiian Islands in shallow, rocky areas.

Juga

These snails are native to the rivers of the northwestern United States and adjacent British Columbia.

Leptoxis carinata

This species, unlike softer shelled physid snails, grows very slowly, and has the lowest intrinsic rate of increase (this means that populations grow very slowly), along with Elimia virginica, in this environment.

Lirceus usdagalun

It is associated with other cave organisms, including the isopod Caecidotea recurvata, the amphipod Crangonyx antennatus, snails (genus Fontigens), and planarians (genus Sphalloplana).

Lourdes J. Cruz

Lourdes J. Cruz is a biochemist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails.

Marcellus Empiricus

Other ingredients likely to have been rare for Marcellus’s intended audience include cinnamon, cloves, candied tragacanth, Alexandrian niter, and African snails, perhaps the Giant African land snail, which are prescribed live for pulping into a mélange.

Marstonia ogmorhaphe

Marstonia ogmorhaphe, common names the royal marstonia or royal springsnail, is a minute species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.

Megalobulimus

Shells of terrestrial snails, mainly of the genus Megalobulimus, are found in fluvial shellmound (called sambaqui in Brazil) on the Capelinha archaeological site from paleoamerican culture of early Holocene.

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.

Nataliconus

These cone snails have been shown to have a preference in prey, and choose to eat mollusks in the family Ranellidae.

Nelson Coast temperate forest

The ares is also rich in invertebrates including almost half of the know species of amber snails (Powelliphanta).

Nystiellidae

Nystiellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Epitonioidea which includes the wentletraps, the purple snails and their allies.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

The species of small snails was later named Oncomelania quadrasi by Möllendorff in 1895 after Don José Florencio Quadras, a Spanish malacologist who was also based in Manila at that time.

Partula faba

Bristol Zoo has been entrusted with the last-known colony of these snails.

Pierre Denys de Montfort

Lanistes Montfort, 1810 - a genus of freshwater apple snails

Planorbidae

Ancestors of ramshorn snails are known with certainty since the Jurassic period.

Red-crowned Barbet

The prey of Red-crowned Barbet include land snails of the genus Amphidromus.

Short-range endemic invertebrates

Several animal groups studied in Australia consist largely of short-range endemics, including freshwater and terrestrial Gastropods (snails and slugs), earthworms, velvet worms, mygalomorph spiders, schizomids, millipedes, phreatoicidean crustaceans, and freshwater crayfish.

Slender-billed Kite

As in the Snail Kite, the unusually shaped bill is an adaption for feeding on aquatic snails, and while it sometimes takes crabs, it mainly feeds on snails of the genus Pomacea.

Snail Kite

Pomacea flagellata apple snails were propagated in El Salvador between 1982 and 1986 as food for fish stocks, and it seems that the widespread presence of high numbers of these snails has not gone unnoticed by the Snail Kite.

Spegeldammen

Gyraulus crista and Hippeutis complanatus are unusual freshwater snails present in the lake.

Tornatellides

These very small snails are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.

Tridacna squamosa

Clams should be inspected for Pyramidellidae snails and quarantined, if possible, before being added to aquaria.

Yoshio Kondo

His main research interests involved land snails in the families Achatinellidae and Partulidae, groups for which he was a major authority, although he did work with other mollusks as well.

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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