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  2. Physa - Wikipedia

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    Physa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Physinae of the family Physidae. [2] These snails eat algae, diatoms and detritus.

  3. Physella acuta - Wikipedia

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    These snails eat dead plant and animal matter and various other detritus. Because Physella acuta forages mainly on epiphytic vegetation and on the macrophytes, whereas other gastropods (Planorbis planorbis, Radix ovata) exploit the algal cover or phytobentos on the bottom, competition between Physella acuta and other gastropods appears to be ...

  4. Physidae - Wikipedia

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    These snails are sometimes viewed as pests in aquarium tanks with fish, because the snails create waste, reproduce very often, and are very hard to remove completely. However, some aquarium owners deliberately chose to add these freshwater pond snails to their tank because the snails will eat uneaten fish food, algae and waste, as well as ...

  5. Detritivore - Wikipedia

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    Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces). [1] There are many kinds of invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants that carry out coprophagy.

  6. Lissachatina fulica - Wikipedia

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    The giant African snail is a macrophytophagous herbivore; it eats a wide range of living plant material, commercially important fruits and vegetables, ornamental plants such as flowers, native plants, as well as weeds and detritus plant material. At different life stages and temperatures, the snail has slightly different feeding preferences.

  7. Marisa cornuarietis - Wikipedia

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    This species eats aquatic plants, algae, dead fish and snails. Easily adaptable to captivity, this snail may invade and damage aquarium vegetation. [4] It is practically omnivorous, and feeds on animal and vegetal detritus. [4] This snail acts as a useful aquarium scavenger when it is not excessively numerous. [4]

  8. Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of ...

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    A young Norwegian woman wearing a folk dress poses in a photographic studio in 1901. Traditional Norwegian embroidery might used wool dyed from madder. - Søstrene Persen/Courtesy Fallaize ...

  9. Gastropoda - Wikipedia

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    An apple snail, Pomacea maculata, floating and eating a piece of carrot. The diet of gastropods differs according to the group considered. Marine gastropods include some that are herbivores, detritus feeders, predatory carnivores, scavengers, parasites, and also a few ciliary feeders, in which the radula is reduced or absent. Land-dwelling ...