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Dolicholatirus thesaurus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Caenogastropoda Order: Neogastropoda Family: Dolicholatiridae Genus: Dolicholatirus Species: D. thesaurus Binomial name Dolicholatirus thesaurus (Garrard, 1963) Synonyms Latirus thesaurus Garrard, 1963 Dolicholatirus thesaurus is a species of sea snail, a marine ...
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract
The snail's oesophageal gland houses symbiotic gammaproteobacteria from which the snail appears to obtain its nourishment. This species is considered to be one of the most peculiar deep-sea hydrothermal-vent gastropods, and it is the only known extant animal that incorporates iron sulfide into its skeleton (into both its sclerites and into its ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis.
These snails eat dead plant and animal matter and various other detritus. Because Physella acuta forages mainly on epiphytic vegetation and on the macrophytes, whereas other gastropods ( Planorbis planorbis , Radix ovata ) exploit the algal cover or phytobentos on the bottom, competition between Physella acuta and other gastropods appears to be ...
Physa fontinalis, common name the common bladder snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. The shells of species in the genus Physa are left-handed or sinistral .
Synonyms Helix cellaria Müller, 1774 Oxychilus cellarius , common name cellar glass-snail , [ 2 ] is a species of small air-breathing land snail , a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae , the glass snails.
Cecilioides acicula, common name the "blind snail" or "blind awlsnail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae. [2] This is a subterranean species.