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  2. Theba pisana - Wikipedia

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    Theba pisana, common names the white garden snail, sand hill snail, white Italian snail, Mediterranean coastal snail, and simply just the Mediterranean snail, is an edible species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

  3. Shankha - Wikipedia

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    Its colour is dull, and the surface is hard, brittle and translucent. Like all snail shells, the interior is hollow. The inner surfaces of the shell are very shiny, but the outer surface exhibits high tuberculation. [7] In Hinduism, the shiny, white, soft shankha with pointed ends and heavy is the most sought after. [8]

  4. Dakshinavarti shankha - Wikipedia

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    Sea Shell from the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and bay of Bengal. The true Lakshmi shankha is a rare sinistral Turbinella conch shell from the Indian Ocean, usually from Turbinella pyrum. Other right-turning sea snail shells are often mistakenly sold and worshiped in place of the genuine shankha.

  5. The shell of a Vitrea virgo, or the Mt. Devica crystal snail. Photos from Gojšina, Vesović, Ćurčić, Karan-Žnidaršič, Mitrović and Dedov (2024) Discover more new species

  6. Crepidula plana - Wikipedia

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    Crepidula plana, common name the eastern white slippersnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and hat snails. [1] This species is characterized by a flat white shell, a white body, and development that includes a planktotrophic larval ...

  7. Gastropod shell - Wikipedia

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    Shells of two different species of sea snail: on the left is the normally sinistral (left-handed) shell of Neptunea angulata, on the right is the normally dextral (right-handed) shell of Neptunea despecta The shell of a large land snail (probably Helix pomatia) with parts broken off to show the interior structure.

  8. Crepidula fornicata - Wikipedia

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    10 fresh shells of Crepidula fornicata. The size of the shell is 20–50 mm. [1] The maximum recorded shell length is 56 mm. [2] This sea snail has an arched, rounded shell. On the inside of the shell there is a white "deck", which causes the shell to resemble a boat or a slipper, hence the common nam

  9. Whorl (mollusc) - Wikipedia

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    This shell has seven and a half whorls A fossil shell of the marine gastropod Turritella communis. This shell has nine whorls. A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral or whorled growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods ...