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Pila. Species: P. globosa. Binomial name. Pila globosa. (Swainson, 1822) Synonyms [2] Ampullaria globosa Swainson, 1822. Pila globosa is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Diversity [ 1 ][ 3 ] 105–170 freshwater species; 9 genera; more than 150 nominal species. Synonyms. Pilidae. Ampullariidae, whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum.
Osphradium. The osphradium is a pigmented chemosensory epithelium patch in the mantle cavity present in six of the eight extant classes of molluscs (it is absent in the scaphopoda and monoplacophora; among cephalopoda, only the nautilus has what appears to be a set of osphradia), on or adjacent to the ctenidia (gills).
Pachylabra turbinis var. lacustris Annandale, 1920. Pomacea orbata Perry, 1811 (junior synonym) Pila ampullacea, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. [ 3]
Chlorarachniophyte. The chlorarachniophytes are a small group of exclusively marine algae widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters. [3] They are typically mixotrophic, ingesting bacteria and smaller protists as well as conducting photosynthesis. Normally they have the form of small amoebae, with branching cytoplasmic extensions that ...
Scotoplanes live on deep ocean bottoms, specifically on the abyssal plain in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, typically at depths of over 1,200 to 5,000 meters (3,900 to 16,400 feet) [5][6] Some related species can be found in the Antarctic. Scotoplanes (and all deep-sea holothurians) are deposit feeders and obtain food by extracting ...
Chlamydomonas (/ ˌklæmɪˈdɒmənəs, - dəˈmoʊ -/ KLAM-ih-DOM-ə-nəs, -də-MOH-) is a genus of green algae consisting of about 150 species [2] of unicellular flagellates, found in stagnant water and on damp soil, in freshwater, seawater, and even in snow as "snow algae". [3] Chlamydomonas is used as a model organism for molecular ...
Binomial name. Pila scutata. (Mousson, 1848) Pila scutata is a species of gastropod belonging to the family Ampullariidae. [1] The species is found in Southeastern Asia and Central America. [1] However, it has been taken from its native habitat to be used as a food delicacy, control of weeds in freshwater, a component in home aquariums, and as ...