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Dolicholatirus thesaurus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Caenogastropoda Order: Neogastropoda Family: Dolicholatiridae Genus: Dolicholatirus Species: D. thesaurus Binomial name Dolicholatirus thesaurus (Garrard, 1963) Synonyms Latirus thesaurus Garrard, 1963 Dolicholatirus thesaurus is a species of sea snail, a marine ...
Conus textile, the textile cone or the cloth of gold cone [3] is a venomous species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. Textile cone snails live mostly in the Indian Ocean, along the eastern coast of Africa and around Australia.
Haeckel (left), 1866 Sea snail shells, Kunstformen der Natur, 1904. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many ...
Physa concolor Haldeman, 1841: synonym of Physella gyrina (Say, 1821) Physa columbiana (Hemphill, 1890) is a synonym for Physella columbiana (Hemphill, 1890) Physa gyrina (Say, 1821) is a synonym for Physella gyrina (Say, 1821) Physa hordacea (I. Lea, 1864): synonym of Physella hordacea (I. Lea, 1864)
Physa fontinalis, common name the common bladder snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. The shells of species in the genus Physa are left-handed or sinistral .
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
Synonyms Helix alliaria Miller, 1822 Oxychilus alliarius , commonly known as the garlic snail or garlic glass-snail , is a species of small, air-breathing land snail , a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the glass snail family, Oxychilidae .
These snails eat dead plant and animal matter and various other detritus. Because Physella acuta forages mainly on epiphytic vegetation and on the macrophytes, whereas other gastropods ( Planorbis planorbis , Radix ovata ) exploit the algal cover or phytobentos on the bottom, competition between Physella acuta and other gastropods appears to be ...