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The name 'cochlea' is derived from the Latin word for snail shell, which in turn is from the Ancient Greek κοχλίας kokhlias ("snail, screw"), and from κόχλος kokhlos ("spiral shell") [4] in reference to its coiled shape; the cochlea is coiled in mammals with the exception of monotremes.
Cochlea / ˈ k oʊ k l i ə / is Latin for “snail, shell or screw” and originates from the Greek word κοχλίας kokhlias. The modern definition, the auditory portion of the inner ear , originated in the late 17th century.
The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture. For purposes of cultivation, the snails are kept in a dark place in a wired cage with dry straw or dry wood. Coppiced wine-grape vines are often used for this purpose. During the rainy period the snails come out of hibernation and release most of their mucus onto the dry wood/straw.
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
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The name derives from the Latin: caldus (warm, hot - referring to the hot spring habitat) and cochlea (snail). [3] Species of this genus are found at Dalhousie Springs in large warm (33-42°C) pools or warm outflows and in the shallow spring edges on rocks and wood. [5] There are two species of snail in this genus: [6] [1]
C. exigua is a relatively small snail, with their shells only ranging between 1.2 and 1.7mm. The shell itself is translucent and thin, with its colour ranging from a pale orange-brown colour, to being completely colourless. It is quite smooth and less textured than most other snails in its genus.
The sea snails are a part of the same family of an invasive species discovered in 2017 in the Florida Keys that is scientifically named Thylacodes vandyensis. The Cayo snails, however, are ...