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The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [3] [4] The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell. [citation needed]
Viviparidae. Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails. This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
Genus: Hydatina. Species: H. physis. Binomial name. Hydatina physis. (Linnaeus, 1758) Hydatina physis is a species of sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplustridae. Its common names include striped paper bubble, green-lined paper bubble, brown-lined paper bubble, and rose petal bubble shell.
V. arthuri now includes many snails that were formerly considered to be rare local endemics of the American Midwest. It now has one of the largest ranges of any land snail in the Western Hemisphere. In many areas, this snail lives in various types of forest habitat. It consumes leaf litter and organic layers on rock surfaces. Description
Binomial name. Littorina saxatilis. (Olivi, 1792) [1] Littorina saxatilis, common name the rough periwinkle, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. First identified in the 1700s, it has been misidentified as a new species 112 times. [2]
HaminaeaLeach in Gray, 1847. Haminea [sic] (misspelling of HaminaeaLeach in Gray, 1847) Haminoea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.
Pseudoliparis swirei is named for Herbert Swire, the First Navigating Sub-Lieutenant of HMS Challenger and author of The Voyage of the Challenger, a personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876. In 1876 the expedition found the Challenger Deep, habitat of the Mariana snailfish. [ 1 ]
Kelletia kelletii, common name Kellet's whelk, is a species of large sea snail, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae. [3] [4] [5] [6]Kelletia kelletii is a large scavenger [5] [7] and predatory sea snail commonly found in subtidal kelp forests, rocky reefs, and cobble-sand interfaces at depths ranging from 2 to 70 m from Isla Asunción, Baja California ...