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...
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snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail...
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Achatina achatina (redirect from Giant tiger land snail)
known as the giant African snail, also known as the giant tiger land snail is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod...
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African land snail is the common name of several species within the family Achatinidae, a family of unusually large African terrestrial snails: Achatina...
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Lissachatina fulica (redirect from Giant East African Snail)
species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. It is also known as the Giant African land snail. It shares...
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a taboo food. In English, edible land snails are commonly called escargot, from the French word for 'snail'. Snails as a food date back to ancient times...
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Gastropoda (redirect from Snails and slugs)
and from the land. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and slugs....
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Heliciculture (redirect from Snail Farming)
commonly known as snail farming, is the process of raising edible land snails, primarily for human consumption or cosmetic use. The meat and snail eggs a.k.a...
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Bermuda land snails, scientific name Poecilozonites, are an endemic genus of pulmonate land snail in the family Gastrodontidae (according to the taxonomy...
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Cornu aspersum (redirect from European brown snail)
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...
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Powelliphanta (redirect from Powelliphanta land snail)
Powelliphanta is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropods in the family Rhytididae, found only in New Zealand. They are carnivorous...
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considered to be sea snails and sometimes listed as land snails. Sea snails are a very large and diverse group of animals. Most snails that live in salt...
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Madeiran land snail is a common name which has been given to several different species of terrestrial gastropods, air-breathing land snails: Caseolus calculus...
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Snail slime is a kind of mucus (an external bodily secretion) produced by snails, which are gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs both produce mucus...
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Helix pomatia (redirect from Burgundy snail)
pomatia, known as the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or escargot, is a species of large, air-breathing stylommatophoran land snail native to Europe. It is characterized...
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List of edible molluscs (section Land snails)
harvested from saltwater, freshwater, and the land, and include numerous members of the classes Gastropoda (snails), Bivalvia (clams, scallops, oysters etc...
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Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats...
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the land snail shown above) also have an outer shell layer called the periostracum which is composed of the protein conchiolin. Some land snails (especially...
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Cepaea nemoralis (redirect from Grove snail)
The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc...
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Snail caviar, also known as escargot caviar or escargot pearls, is the fresh or processed eggs of land snails. It is a luxury gourmet speciality produced...
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The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail, scientific name Cepaea hortensis, is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate...
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darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in...
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Archachatina marginata (redirect from Banana rasp snail)
The giant West African snail or banana rasp snail (Archachatina marginata) is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate...
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Gastropod shell (redirect from Snail shell)
The gastropod shell is part of the body of many gastropods, including snails, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators...
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The decollate snail, scientific name Rumina decollata, is a medium-sized predatory land snail, a species of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in...
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Euglandina rosea (redirect from Wolf snail)
rosea, the rosy wolfsnail or cannibal snail, is a species of medium-sized to large predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate...
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Helix (gastropod) (redirect from Garden snails)
Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. It is the type genus of...
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Crikey steveirwini (redirect from Steve Irwin's tree snail)
Crikey steveirwini is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae. Crikey steveirwini is...
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an invasion of the giant African land snail.[citation needed] It eats a variety of invertebrates including land snails, and has had a significant negative...
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Achatina (redirect from African giant land-snails)
Achatina is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae....
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