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Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. [2]The Polygyridae make up a significant proportion of the land snail fauna of eastern North America, and are also found in western North America, northern Central America, and are present on some Caribbean islands.
Camaenidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families in the clade Stylommatophora. These snails occur in a wide variety of habitats in the tropics of Eastern Asia and Australasia. [2]
Scaly-foot gastropod Chrysomallon squamiferum, common name the scaly-foot gastropod, is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Peltospiridae. This vent-endemic gastropod is known only from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean, where it has been found at depths of about 2,400–2,800 m ...
Caracolus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Solaropsidae. [3] ... Search. Search. Toggle the table of ...
Amastra eos is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae. [1] ... often marguerite yellow near the ...
Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts. [citation needed] In many marine gastropods other than the opisthobranchs, there are separate sexes (dioecious/gonochoric); most land gastropods, however, are hermaphrodites. [citation needed]
Cecilioides acicula, common name the "blind snail" or "blind awlsnail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae. [2] This is a subterranean species.
Cantareus apertus inhabits Mediterranean shrublands, near cultivated fields, gardens. [3] In Gavdos (Greece) also in woodland spreading on recently abandoned cultivated fields, more rarely in natural habitats. [3] In Crete this species is active for 3–4 months after the first rainfalls in October. It aestivates buried relatively deep in the ...