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Cornu aspersum (syn. Helix aspersa, Cryptomphalus aspersus), known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known.
Planorbarius corneus, common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. [3]
Snails are hatched from eggs with calcareous shell about 5–7.3 months after laying. [4] Newborn snails live 2.8 months underground. [4] Paryphanta watti appear to feed while still underground, an increase in mass being from water uptake and the increase in shell suggesting reserves in the snails being consumed. [4]
Cornu aspersum (previously Helix aspersa) – the common garden snail – in Israel Colonies of snails in Sicily. 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 ...
Like other Vitrea snails, the new species has both male and female genitalia, researchers said. Mt. Devica crystal snails were found crawling on “wet rocks” in “a small underground cavern ...
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.
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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 ...