Questions tagged [gastropod]
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What terrestrial Gastropod (specifically snails) has the fastest reproductive rate?
I am looking to do a series of experiments to test the adaptation of snails to different environments (Controlled environments in a lab setting. No organisms would be released into the wild under any ...
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How are large snails able to climb trees?
In answers to What kind of hot pink eggs are these? and the linked duplicate I found out that snails that live in the water will climb up a smooth stick or branch to deposit their eggs. Today I saw ...
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What is this snail? (Location: Bangkok, Thailan; size: 3 cm long, 5 mm wide; color: mostly black)
What is this snail? (Location: Bangkok, Thailan; size: 3 cm long, 5 mm wide; color: mostly black)
Video: https://youtu.be/vxig5QOSoss
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Aquatic Snail Identification
I can’t for the life of me find an identification of these snails. They’re thriving in brackish water, but may be freshwater naturally. They’re about .8cm long at their largest. I believe they have ...
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What is this agglomeration of pink cells I found attached to a stone?
Photo taken in a garden in Singapore. The organism is attached to a stone, close to water. Many of these were there.
Size approx 3cm.
The shell of this eggs is very soft. When touched, a pink ...
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What's the relationship between snail movement and rain?
I have a question about the relationship between snail and rain. A few days ago I found snail shells in a moist area and I brought them in for crafts work (I thought they were empty because snail ...
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What are these four large snails doing?
Hiking in some hills near Taipei after a rain, I saw lots of large snails out and about. Here "large" means the shells are say 8 cm long, and the snail itself fully stretched out 10 to 15 cm perhaps.
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Snail species identification from the United Kingdom
Can anybody identify the species of this snail?
From this website, it looks like a Common Snail.
Could it be the dextral type of Cornu aspersum?
These snails have been found in a garden, have ...
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