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Pomacea bridgesii, common name the spike-topped apple snail or mystery snail, is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae. These snails were most likely introduced to the United States through the aquarium trade.
The mating of gastropods is a vast and varied topic, because the taxonomic class Gastropoda is very large and diverse, a group comprising sea snails and sea slugs, freshwater snails and land snails and slugs. Gastropods are second only to the class Insecta in terms of total number of species.
The apple snail's usual enemies are the birds limpkin and snail kite. Apple snails inhabit various ecosystems: ponds, swamps and rivers. Although they occasionally leave the water, they spend most of their time under water. Unlike the pulmonate snail families, apple snails are not hermaphroditic, but gonochoristic; i.e. they have separate sexes.
The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [3] [4] The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell. [citation needed]
Notopala is a genus of moderately large to large, freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae, the river snails or mystery snails. Description [ edit ]
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Younger, smaller snails are more likely to initiate mating with a mate preference for larger, older snails; although larger, older snails may also mate with each other. [31] [7] Snails mate at night and their mating begins with courtship rituals that can last up to half an hour, including petting their heads and front parts against each other.
The Socorro springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis neomexicana, is an endangered species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. This tiny snail previously inhabited a small group of thermal springs in the State of New Mexico, USA. Its ...