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  2. Conus tulipa - Wikipedia

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    Conus tulipa, common name the tulip cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [1] Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully.

  3. Busycon - Wikipedia

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    Busycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs". [1] Busycon comes from the Greek bousykon meaning large fig, from bous meaning cow and sykon meaning fig. [2]

  4. Ovulidae - Wikipedia

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    When these snails are alive, the mantle completely covers the shell almost all of the time. Pictures of living animals usually show the brightly colored and decorated mantle, which looks very different from the often rather plain, shiny surface of the shell. The color patterns of the mantle closely resemble the color patterns of the host species.

  5. Snail - Wikipedia

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    The radula works like a file, ripping food into small pieces. Many snails are herbivorous, eating plants or rasping algae from surfaces with their radulae, though a few land species and many marine species are omnivores or predatory carnivores. Snails cannot absorb colored pigments when eating paper or cardboard so their feces are also colored. [3]

  6. Conch - Wikipedia

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    Conch (US: / k ɒ ŋ k / konk, UK: / k ɒ n tʃ / kontch [1]) is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point on both ends).

  7. 32 best aquarium pets that aren't fish - AOL

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    More informally known as an Apple Snail, or Gold Inca Snails, these healthy diners will feed on ordinary fish food and waste, making these algae eaters a popular choice in many aquariums.

  8. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...

  9. Selenizone - Wikipedia

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    A selenizone (from the Greek "selene" meaning "moon", and "zone" meaning "girdle") is an anatomical structure that exists in the shells of some families of living sea snails: the slit shells, the little slit shells and the abalone, which are marine gastropod mollusks from ancient lineages.