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A newly hatched snail is called a neonate. When the giant African land snail hatches, it's shell is about 5 to 5.5 mm long, consisting of 2.5 whorls. As the snail grows, its shell extends either clockwise (dextral) or counter-clockwise (sinistral), coiling and creating whirls as the snail ages. Dextral growth is most common. [citation needed]
Pests can grow to eight inches long, live for over a decade, reproduce rapidly and even chew through stucco, paint and plastic recycling bins
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 (those without shells are known as slugs ).
Zospeum tholussum or the domed land snail, [2] is a cave-dwelling species of air-breathing land snails in the family Ellobiidae. It is a very small species, with a shell height of less than 2 mm (0.08 in) and a shell width of around 1 mm (0.04 in). Z. tholussum individuals are completely blind and possess translucent shells with five to six ...
Parts of Broward County, Florida, are under quarantine after a giant African land snail — described as "one of the most damaging snails in the world" — was detected earlier this month ...
The shell of Stenotrema florida, a land snail or terrestrial gastropod.The periostracum of this species has minute hairs, giving the snail a velvety feel A yellowish tan periostracum is visible on the lower two thirds of this juvenile (8 cm) valve of the marine bivalve Spisula solidissima The dark periostracum is flaking off of this dried-out valve of the "ocean quahog", marine bivalve Arctica ...
Orthalicoidea A large orthalicid from eastern Peru (probably of genus Sultana), recovering from substantial shell damage.: Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom:
Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora. [2] They are medium-sized to large snails, from about 3 cm (about 1.2 inches) to 9 cm (about 3.5 inches) in shell length