Without it, the snail risks drying out. Snails can even repair damage to them! While they’re part of the same family and are both part of the gastropod class, slugs and snails are not ...

are part of a huge range of snail species — we're talking about 4,000 species — that live in bodies of fresh water.

Like all gastropods (slugs and snails) whose bodies are made of mostly water, banana slugs must stay moist to stay alive. To avoid dehydration, gastropods secrete a layer of mucus, or slime ...

Also known as the strange pebblesnail, the species is a critically imperiled freshwater gastropod found only at Page Springs ... care of natural waters like this spring and protecting these snails can ...

The snails were wrongly denied protection by the Trump administration ... Endangered Species Act protection will ensure Arkansas mudalia don’t join that list.” Freshwater gastropods like the Arkansas ...

And the reason for this? Track 6, Silver Snail. Never before had the graceful ennui of a gastropod’s existence been so elegantly summarised. Many in the snail community now agree that the song ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

The non-marine (terrestrial and freshwater) gastropod and bivalve molluscs collections are the ... Recent comprehensive land snail collections have been made in Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Early ...