The name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. Other gastropods, which lack a conspicuous shell, are commonly called slugs, and are scattered throughout groups that primarily include snails. Snails are found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. While most people are familiar with only terrestrial snails, the majority of snails are not terrestrial. Snails with lungs belong to the group Pulmonata, while those with gills belong to the Paraphyletic group. ...

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The lifespan of snails varies from species to species. In the wild, Achatinidae snails live around 5 to 7 years and Helix snails live about 2 to 3 years. Aquatic Apple Snails live only a year or so. Most deaths are due to predators or parasites. As noted at the following address, snails have lived beyond this lifespan: "more than 30 years" http://www.weichtiere.at/Mollusks/Schnecken/weinberg.html ...

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Apple snails (those of the Ampullaridae family) are tropical and sub-tropical freshwater snails. They are named for their round shell, which is apple shaped, technically referred to as a globose shell. They are particularly well adaped to areas which experience alternating drought and deluge; they possess a shell door or operculum which allows them to close their shell to prevent drying out during droughts. Unlike many other freshwater gastropods, Apple Snails have both a lung and a gill. This allows ...

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Snails move like worms by alternating body contractions with stretching, with a proverbially low speed. They produce mucus in order to aid locomotion by reducing friction. The mucus also reduces the snail's risk of injury and helps keep away potentially dangerous insects like ants. When retracted into their shells, snails secrets a special type of mucus which dries to cover the entrance of their shells with a 'trapdoor' like structure called an operculum. This is similar to some slug species which build a shell-like object below their upper skin to prevent drying out. The operculum of some snails has a pleasant scent when bur ...

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Linnaeus, 1758 Asprella Chelyconus Conus Floraconus Leptoconus The cone snails or cone shells (Conidae) are marine snails found in coral reefs. Cone snails can grow up to 23 cm in length and are found in tropical waters. There are about 500 different species. They are carnivorous, generally eating marine worms, small fish, and even other molluscs. Because cone snails are slow-moving, they use a venomous harpoon (actua ...

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What are Little Boys Made of? is a popular nursery rhyme: What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy dog tails,[1] That's what little boys are made of. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice,[2]

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Swimmer’s itch, or cercarial dermatitis, is a short-term, immune reaction occurring in the skin of humans that have been infected by water-borne trematode parasites. Symptoms, which include itchy, raised papules, commonly occur within hours of infection and do not generally last more than a week. The trematodes that cause swimmer’s itch are schistosomes that mostly parasitize snails and birds, particularly waterfowl (one exception is Schistosomatium douthitti, which infects snails and rodents). These groups ar ...

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Nicrophorinae Silphinae Carrion beetles (Family Silphidae) are a minor group of beetles, consisting of about 300 species. The name "carrion beetles" is not accurate, because many species don't feed on carrion, but are carnivorous. The genera Phosphuga, Ablattaria and Silpha are mainly snail hunters. They spray digestive fluid into the snail-shell, and afterwards they suck the prey out of its shell. The carrion beetles of the genus Xylodrepa hunt caterpillars, while Aclypea and Blitophaga are con ...

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,  Species Biomphalaria glabrata Species Biomphalaria obstructa Species Biomphalaria amazonica Species Biomphalaria pfeifferi Species Biomphalaria tenagophila Species Biomphalaria havanensis Species Biomphalaria straminea Species Biomphalaria alexandrina Species Biomphalaria subprona Biomphalaria is an important genus of snail that serves as a natural host for the schistomasomias ...

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The Family Ampullariidae (Pilidae)—commonly referred to as Apple Snails—are tropical and subtropical freshwater mollusks. The Ampullariidae includes several genera: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, and Pomacea are New World genera (native to South America, Central America, the West Indies and the Southern U.S.A.), while the genera Afropomus, Lanistes, and Saulea are found in Africa. The genus Pila is native to both Africa and Asia. Ampullariidae - Ada ...

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Achatina Archachatina Atopocochlis Burtoa Callistopepla Columna Lignus Limicolaria Limocolariopsis Metachatina Perideriopsis Pseudachatina Achitinidae is a family of terrestrial snails from Africa. The family includes some 11 genera. Achatinidae - Classification. Genus Achatina A. achatina Linnaeus, 1758 or Giant ...

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Copulation is the union of the external sexual organs of two sexually reproducing animal organisms for insemination and for subsequent internal fertilization, which is fertilization of ova inside organisms. The two organisms may be of opposite sexes or hermaphroditic, as is the case with, for example, snails. Animals initially lived only in water and reproduced by external fertilization in the water. Certain animals st ...

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A conotoxin is one of a group of neurotoxic peptides isolated from the venom of the marine cone snail. Conotoxins, which are peptides consisting of 10 to 30 amino acid residues, typically have some disulfide bonds. Conotoxins have a variety of activities, most of which have not been explained closely yet. The number of conotoxins whose activities have been determined so far is five, and they are called the α-, δ-, κ-, μ-, and ω types. Each of the five types of conotoxins attacks a different target: α-conotoxin attacks ace ...

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Cowry - Cowry or Cowrie shell. Cowry shells (also spelled "cowrie"), are marine snails of the genus Cypraea (family Cypraeidae), found chiefly in tropical regions, especially around the Maldives or the East Indies. The shell itself is smooth and more or less egg-shaped, with a long, narrow, slit-like opening (aperture). Sizes range from 5 mm (1/5") for some tropical species to 15 cm (6") for the Tiger Cowry, Cypraea tigris. Cowries (esp. Cypraea moneta) were ...

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Tyrian purple is a purple dye made in the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre from a secretion of Spiny Dye-Murex (Murex brandaris), a marine snail. A similar dye, "Hyacinth Purple" was made from the related Banded Dye-Murex Murex trunculus. The dye was expensive: Aristotle assigns a value ten to twenty times its weight in gold. The fast, non-fading dye was an item of luxury trade, prized by Romans, who used it to colour ceremonial robes. Pliny the Elder described the dyeing process of two purples in his Nat ...

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Schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a disease affecting many people in developing countries. It is also called snail fever but is not to be confused with swimmer's itch. In certain African communities the process of overcoming Schistosomiasis is an important rite of passage. Although it has a low mortality rate, schistosomiasis can be very debilitating. (Bilharzia, or bilharziosis, is a largely obsolete eponym, after Theodor Bilharz, who first described the cause of urinary schistosomiasis in 1851.) ...

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Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, the first National Preserve in the United States National Park system, has a mixture of pines, hardwoods, prairies, mangrove forests, cypress strands and domes. White-tailed deer, bear and Florida panther can be found here along with the more tropical Liguus tree snail, Royal Palm and cigar orchid. This meeting place of temperate and tropical species is a hotbed of biological diversity. Hydrologically, the Preserve serves as a supply of fresh, clean water for the vital estua ...

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Caracol or El Caracol is the name given to a large ancient Maya site located in the Cayo District of the nation of Belize. Caracol is about 25 miles south of Xunantunich and San Ignacio Cayo, at an elevation of 1500 feet (460 m) above sea-level, in the foothills of the Maya Mountains. The name is Spanish for "The Snail"; the ancient Maya name may have been Oxhuitza. The site was occupied as early as 12 ...

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Named after the Latin word for snail shell, the cochlea is a coiled, tapered tube containing the auditory branch of the mammalian inner ear. Its core component is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing. Cochlea - Anatomy. The cochlea consists of three fluid-filled chambers—scala tympani and scala vestibuli (both of which contain perilymph), and scala media (which contains endolymph). The scala tympani and the scala vestibuli are contiguous with each other, merging at the tip of th ...

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