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Four views of a shell of Arianta arbustorum: Apertural view (top left), lateral view (top right), apical view (bottom left), and umbilical view (bottom right). The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but ...
Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. [ 1 ] It is also known as the Giant African land snail. [ 2 ] It shares the common name "giant African snail" with other species of snails such as Achatina achatina and Archachatina marginata.
Description. The pattern and brownish colour of the shell is reminiscent of a partridge 's plumage hence the common name. The size of an adult shell varies between 70 mm and 220 mm. The ovate-oblong shell is ventricose and pretty thin. It is of a reddish-brown color, pleasingly varied with white spots in transverse series, for the most part ...
Syrinx aruanus, common name the Australian trumpet or false trumpet, is a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 75 cm long and weighing up to 18 kg. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae, and is the only species in the genus Syrinx. This is the largest extant snail (shelled gastropod) species in the world ...
Sculpture (mollusc) Sculpture is a feature of many of the shells of mollusks. It is three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of the shell, as distinct from either the basic shape of the shell itself or the pattern of colouration, if any. Sculpture is a feature found in the shells of gastropods, bivalves, and scaphopods.
Cerion. (gastropod) Cerion is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae, noted for its extreme morphological diversity. The genus is endemic to the Caribbean region. [ 4][ 5] Cerion has been a model organism in evolutionary biology.
Orthalicus reses, the Stock Island tree snail or the Florida tree snail, is a species of large tropical air-breathing tree snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae. It was first described in 1830 by the American naturalist Thomas Say. The holotype, a specimen probably collected in Key West, was subsequently lost.
Cepaea (Cepaea) nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) Helix nemoralis Linnaeus, 1758. The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. [3] It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America.