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In terrestrial pulmonate gastropods, eye spots are present at the tips of the tentacles in the Stylommatophora or at the base of the tentacles in the Basommatophora.These eye spots range from simple ocelli that cannot project an image (simply distinguishing light and dark), to more complex pit and even lens eyes. [6]
The shell of the majority of species is ear-shaped, presenting a small, flat spire and two to three whorls. The last whorl, known as the body whorl, is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name "ear shell". Haliotis asinina has a somewhat different shape, as it is more elongated and distended.
Living abalone in tank showing epipodium and tentacles, anterior end to the right. Abalone (/ ˈ æ b ə l oʊ n i / ⓘ or / ˌ æ b ə ˈ l oʊ n i /; via Spanish abulón, from Rumsen aulón) is a common name for any small to very large marine gastropod mollusc in the family Haliotidae, which once contained six genera but now contains only one genus, Haliotis. [1]
A pair of rhinophores on the head of Goniobranchus coi Right rhinophore of Acanthodoris pilosa. A rhinophore is one of a pair of chemosensory club-shaped, rod-shaped or ear-like structures which are the most prominent part of the external head anatomy in sea slugs, marine gastropod opisthobranch mollusks such as the nudibranchs, sea hares (Aplysiomorpha), and sap-sucking sea slugs ().
Haliotis asinina, common name the ass's-ear abalone, is a fairly large species of sea snail, a tropical gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone, also known as ormers or pāua. Both the common name and the scientific name are based on the shape of the shell, which is long, narrow and curved, resembling the shape of a donkey's ear.
There is one pair of retractable (Onchidiidae) or two pairs of contractile tentacles, eyes are located on tentacle tips. Radula has many similar teeth per row (but this is modified in Rathousiidae). There is a common spermoviduct, but then the male and female tracts divide and the male and female parts have widely separated openings.
Obtuse – Dull or blunt, as the apex of some gastropods. [1] Olfactory – Pertaining to the smell. [1] Olivaceous – Colored like an olive. [1] Organism – An organized being, or living object made up of organs. [1] Ovate – Egg-shaped. [1] Ovately conic – Shaped like an egg, but with a somewhat conic apex, as some gastropods. [1]
Different estimates for aquatic gastropods (based on different sources) give about 30,000 species of marine gastropods, and about 5,000 species of freshwater and brackish gastropods. Many deep-sea species remain to be discovered, as only 0.0001% of the deep-sea floor has been studied biologically.