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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Big-eyed conch snails use vision to jump away from predators nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/j

#Evolution of Large Eyes in #Stromboidea (#Gastropoda): Impact of Photic Environment and Life History Traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advanc by Alison Irwin et al.

"While the basic eyes of most #snails look like small black dots, #ConchSnails have eyes that are up to 10 times bigger than any of their relatives. These mobile, stalked eyes can peer in all directions"

close-up photo of a sea snail with 2 large eyes on stalks
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Stefan F. Wirth

The #snail #Arianta #arbustorum (#Helicidae, #Gastropoda) is a land snail (#Stylommatophora) that is quite common in #Berlin, especially in urban #forest areas. However, the snail is flexible in terms of its #ecological requirements and can also be found in open areas. It is widespread in Central Europe and northwestern Europe and primarily requires #moisture. It also appears in #mountainous areas of up to 2700 m. #biodiversity #Mollusca
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

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Ms. Que Banh

Tiny baby #slug - I believe it's a native banana slug but am unsure. It may be an invasive baby chocolate/black slug. I am not educated enough on slugs to tell at baby stage. I can easily identify mature slugs.

Any slug experts here, who can help with this slug identification?

I remember as a young kid, I felt sorry for slugs because I thought all of them were homeless snails. I tried to gift slugs some shell homes but no slug ever accepted my free shell homes offerings

#nature#gastropoda
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Team finds 9 new species of tiny, meat-eating snails futurity.org/new-snail-species

Overlooked #PredatorySnails from #PapuaNewGuinea: nine new Torresiropa (#Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Rhytididae) schweizerbart.de/papers/archmo

"These #NewSpecies of #snails were found in areas that still have #NativeVegetation and still appear to be doing well, but they could easily become endangered if things change... All 9 species have dagger-shaped teeth on their #radula, which is characteristic of predatory snails"

photo of a tiny snail shell
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Soh Kam Yung

Fascinating looking snail.

#iNaturalist #Observations #Nature #Snails #Gastropoda

inaturalist.org/blog/22462-a-m

www.inaturalist.orgA Mighty Snail Found in Ecuador - (Bonus) Observation of the Week, 3/14/19Our (Bonus!) Observation of the Week is this large Thaumastus thompsoni snail, seen in Ecuador by @souhjiro!Edgar Segovia (@souhjiro) is a biologist who has a lot of interests, “mainly entomology, arachnology, carcinology and malacology, and I am also interested in aquatic biology and ecology.” His curiosity with nature started at an early age, when“[I] saw as child the insects on the garden or on my school patio, and the tadpoles on the puddles around my natal city of Cuenca...and compared them with the Atlas of the Animal World, from Reader´s Digest, which was my first and favorite book.” Even at at that young age, Edgar noticed detail such as the local frogs, mainly of the genus Gastrotheca, did not lay eggs like those he saw in the book.As he grew older, Edgar was mentored by biologist Gustavo Morejon, who lent him books and showed him Universidad del Azuay’s insect collection. “As a 12-something year old boy, [I] was totally fascinated with that, and that furthered my interest ...
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