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Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.
Synonyms; Aclis acuminata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844) Amaea acuminata ... Acrilla acuminata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family ...
Synonyms; Melanella candida Marrat, 1880 ... Melanella martinii, common name the white parasitic snail, is a species of ... G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Conchyliorum or ...
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 completely into.
Synonyms Oliva leucostoma Duclos, 1840 (invalid: junior homonym of Oliva leucostoma Lamarck, 1811 ) Oliva keenii is a species of sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae , the olives.
Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, also called the dark-bodied glass snail with a shell of about 14 mm (0.55 in) in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown and gold in color, somewhat whiter underneath.
They lay their eggs in the mud, and hatch as free-swimming larvae. Species ... 1947 (badwater snail): synonym of Angustassiminea infima (S. S. Berry, 1947) ...
The Calyptraeidae are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods. [1]This family includes the slipper snails (Crepidula species), the Chinese hat snails, (Calyptraea species), and the cup-and-saucer snails (Crucibulum species) among others.