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Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.
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.
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 .
Synonyms; Pterygia nucella ... Voluta dactylus Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination) Pterygia dactylus is a species of sea snail, ... (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan ...
Tonna galea, commonly known as the giant tun, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae (also known as the tun shells). This very large sea snail or tun snail is found in the North Atlantic Ocean as far as the coast of West Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea.
Succinea ovalis Say, 1817 [7] is a synonym for Novisuccinea ovalis (Say, 1817) Succinea pennsylvanica Pilsbry, 1948 – Penn ambersnail: [7] synonym of Novisuccinea pennsylvanica (Pilsbry, 1948) † Succinea peregrina F. Sandberger, 1872: synonym of †Oxyloma affine (Reuss in Reuss & Meyer, 1849)
Snail (company), a Chinese video game company; Snail (advertisement), a 2004 television advertisement for Guinness Extra Cold; SNAI1, or Snail, protein-coding gene; The Snail, a 1953 collage by Henri Matisse; A slang term for the power source of some rotary snowplows; A slang term for a turbocharger or centrifugal supercharger.
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.