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C. hortensis. Binomial name. Cepaea hortensis. (O.F. Müller, 1774) [1] The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. The only other species in the genus is Cepaea nemoralis.
The snail had a rare condition that caused its shell to coil to the left; in most snails the shell coils to the right. It was hoped that the condition would be due to a mutation, and that genes identified from this snail and its offspring would help scientists unlock genetic markers in humans and other animals. [ 2 ]
Land snail. Helix pomatia, a species of air-breathing land snail used for escargot, is a little bit larger than the common garden snail. A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells ...
Snail slime is a kind of mucus (an external bodily secretion) produced by snails, which are gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs both produce mucus, as does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. The reproductive system of gastropods also produces mucus internally from special glands.
Discus macclintocki. (F. C. Baker, 1928) Distribution of Iowa Pleistocene Snail (Discus macclintocki) Discus macclintocki is a species of land snail in the family Discidae known commonly as the Iowa Pleistocene snail and Pleistocene disc. [1][2] It occurs in Iowa and Illinois in the United States. [1] It is a federally listed endangered species.
Amphibola obvoluta Jonas, 1846. Amphibola crenata (tītiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air-breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine. [2] This is not a true ...
Snail. 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.
Binomial name. Oxychilus cellarius. (O. F. Müller, 1774) [1] 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.