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These gastropods live in forests and humid shady places, in dead wood logs, under stones, on humus and in soil litter, sometimes in colonies, at an elevation of 0–2,100 metres (0–6,890 ft) above sea level. [3] They can live both in natural habitats and in environments modified by humans, like gardens. [9]
Gastropods are capable of being either male or female, or hermaphrodites, and this makes their reproduction system stand out amongst many other invertebrates. Hermaphroditic gastropods possess both the egg and sperm gametes which gives them the opportunity to self-fertilize. [4] C. obtusus is a snail species of the Eastern Alps. In the ...
It does this through a series of muscle contraction waves that extend along the lower surface of the foot propelling the mollusc forward. The foot also excretes a substance, known as pedal mucus , with adhesive properties that allow for Telescopium telescopium to move on inverted services overcoming the force of gravity that they would fall ...
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.
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs to major rivers. The great majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few
The scaly-foot gastropod is an obligate symbiotroph throughout post-settlement life. [24] Throughout its post-larval life, the scaly-foot gastropod obtains all of its nutrition from the chemoautotrophy of its endosymbiotic bacteria. [26] [24] The scaly-foot gastropod is neither a filter-feeder [5] [24] nor uses other mechanisms for feeding. [5]
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Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order , although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005 .