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Diversity [ 1 ][ 3 ] 105–170 freshwater species; 9 genera; more than 150 nominal species. Synonyms. Pilidae. Ampullariidae, whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum.
Pomacea canaliculata. (Lamarck, 1819) Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top ...
Pomacea (Effusa) Jousseaume, 1889. Pomacea (Pomacea) Perry, 1810. Pomacea (Surinamia) Clench, 1933. Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The genus is native to the Americas; most species in this genus are restricted to South America.
Cornu aspersum(syn. Helix aspersa, Cryptomphalus aspersus), known by the common namegarden snail, is a species of land snailin the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. It was classified under the name Helix aspersafor over two ...
Snails as food. Snails are eaten by humans in many areas such as Africa, Southeast Asia and Mediterranean Europe, while in other cultures, snails are seen as a taboo food. In English, edible land snails are commonly called escargot, from the French word for 'snail'. [1] Snails as a food date back to ancient times, with numerous cultures ...
Planorbella trivolvis, an air-breathing ramshorn snail. Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs to major rivers.
Shell description. Five views of a shell of Pomacea paludosa. This species is the largest freshwater gastropod native to North America. [3] The shell is globose in shape. The whorls are wide, the spire is depressed, and the aperture is narrowly oval. [3] The shells are brown in color, and have a pattern of stripes.
Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804). Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.