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The species is edible. Busycotypus canaliculatus, along with hard clam, is used in the creation of wampum, which is a traditional shell bead made by the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans.
Common name Scientific name Home range status Oʻahu tree snails: Achatinella spp. Hawaii: E Painted snake-coiled forest snail: Anguispira picta: Tennessee: T Iowa Pleistocene snail: Discus macclintocki: Illinois, Iowa: E Morro Shoulderband snail: Helminthoglypta walkeriana: California: E Magazine Mountain shagreen: Mesodon magazinensis ...
The knobbed whelk lives subtidally and is migratory, alternating between deep and shallow water, depending on the time of year. During the weather extremes of the summer and winter months, these sea snails live in deep water, at depths of up to 48 m. In the milder weather of the spring and fall they live in shallow water, on near-shore or ...
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Crepidula plana, common name the eastern white slippersnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and hat snails. [1] This species is characterized by a flat white shell, a white body, and development that includes a planktotrophic larval ...
Those remaining snails were collected that same year and raised in captivity for 33 years. Due to those efforts, their numbers have bounced up to 1,000. An individual of the snail species ...
Red racer nerites are small snails that only grow to a maximum diameter of 3 cm (1.2 in). They have shells that have highly variable patterns in red, orange, yellow, black, and white. The patterns often form bands of repeating "arrows" resembling racing stripes, which is the source of their common name "racer." Red racer snails are amphibious ...
The snails are a unique part of the neuston, organisms which live on or near the surface of the water, because of their relatively large size. They have veliger , or free swimming larvae, but the adults do not swim, and cannot create their rafts, except at the surface where air bubbles are available.