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Synonyms See text. Charonia lampas , common name the pink lady , is a species of predatory sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Charoniidae .
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.
[1] Assimilation – Act of converting one substance into another, as the changing of food-stuffs into living bodies. [1] Asymmetrical – Not symmetrical. [1] Atrium; Atrophied – Wasted away. [1] Attenuate – Long and slender, as in some shells. [1] Auditory – Connected with the hearing. [1] Auricled – Eared, or with ear-like appendages ...
Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801 (junior synonym) Cantareus apertus , [ 2 ] commonly known as the green garden snail , is a species of air-breathing land snail , a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae , the typical snails.
Synonyms Helix cellaria Müller, 1774 Oxychilus cellarius , common name cellar glass-snail , [ 2 ] is a species of small air-breathing land snail , a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae , the glass snails.
Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible [3] species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeinae ( of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Diversity [1] [2] About 150 extant species Pleuroceridae , common name pleurocerids , is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails , aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea .These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell.