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  2. Gastropod shell - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Operculum (gastropod) - Wikipedia

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    Shell of marine snail Lunella torquata with the calcareous operculum in place Gastropod shell of the freshwater snail Viviparus contectus with corneous operculum in place. The operculum (from Latin operculum 'cover, covering'; pl. opercula or operculums) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor that exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails ...

  4. Syrinx aruanus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Helix (gastropod) - Wikipedia

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    Helix (gastropod) Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is the type genus of the family Helicidae, and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus [ 3 ] at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature.

  6. Land snail - Wikipedia

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    Land snail. Helix pomatia, a species of air-breathing land snail used for escargot, is a little bit larger than the common garden snail. A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells ...

  7. Terebridae - Wikipedia

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    The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, is a family of predatory marine gastropods in the superfamily Conoidea. [3] They have extremely high-spired shells with numerous whorls; their common name refers to the resemblance of their shells to rock-drill bits. More than 400 species are recently known worldwide. [2] [4]

  8. Cepaea nemoralis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Norrisia norrisii - Wikipedia

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    The fleshy foot of the snail is a bright reddish orange with black speckling lining the basal margin. Four elongate epipodial tentacles are spaced evenly along both sides of the muscular foot. [9] [11] Empty shells of Norrisia norrisii are often occupied by hermit crabs, using the hard shell to protect their poorly armored posterior.

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