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This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
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.
Busycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae.These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks.Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs".
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 .
Succinea chittenangoensis Pilsbry, 1908 – Chittenango ovate amber snail: [7] synonym of Novisuccinea chittenangoensis (Pilsbry, 1908) Succinea depressa Rang, 1834: synonym of Pellicula depressa (Rang, 1834) (original combination) Succinea forsheyi I. Lea, 1864 – spotted ambersnail: [7] synonym of Succinea concordialis A. Gould, 1848
Although the name "snail" can be, and often is, applied to all the members of this class, commonly this word means only those species with an external shell big enough that the soft parts can withdraw completely into it. Slugs are gastropods that have no shell or a very small, internal shell; semislugs are gastropods that have a shell that they ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Physella acuta is a species of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. Common names include European physa , tadpole snail , bladder snail , and acute bladder snail .