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World of Warcraft Classic is a 2019 massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Running alongside the main version of the game , Classic recreates World of Warcraft in the vanilla state it was in before the release of its first expansion , The Burning Crusade .
The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it .
The anal sulcus, also called the anal sinus or anal canal, in Gastropods is a notch, a shelly tube at the top of the aperture. [1] It is the first notch close to the suture. It houses the anal siphon through which the snail expels water and waste products. Shell of Drillia poecila Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001, showing the anal sulcus on top of the ...
This genus is a heterogeneous assemblage. Because the shell characters of this genus converge with those of the larger specimens of some closely related genera (Saphtia Winter, 2008, [3] Pseudosaphtia Winter, 2008 [3] and Vanmolia Winter, 2008 [3]), the delimitation of * To Thapsia s.l. is difficult. There very few papers that describe the ...
shell of Rhodacmea filosa 31 May 2011 - the Wicker ancylid Rhodacmea filosa, (shell pictured) listed as extinct by the IUCN Red List, has been rediscovered. New gastropod taxa described in 2011; 18 April 2011 - Research on the mating of Chelidonura sandrana contradicts the traditional theory about mating in simultaneous hermaphrodites.
In very large gastropods such as the queen conch (Aliger gigas) once the columellar muscles are cut with a knife, the soft parts of the animal fall out of the shell easily. Conch fishermen in the Caribbean Sea break a small hole in the spire of the shell, cut the columellar muscles, and harvest the live meat of this species. Often the fishermen ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Shell of Theta chariessa: ... marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae. [1] Species
Three views of a shell of Norelona pyrenaica with the apertural view in the center A shell of Semicassis pyrum, which has a large aperture and a pronounced parietal callus The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells : it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion ...