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Snail Shell Cave is a limestone cave in Rockvale, Tennessee. Snail Shell Cave lies on an 88-acre (36 ha) preserve near Murfreesboro, Tennessee . Snail Shell cave is owned by the Southeastern Cave Conservancy , which has called it "one of the most biologically significant cave sites in the southeastern United States ."
Zospeum tholussum or the domed land snail, [2] is a cave-dwelling species of air-breathing land snails in the family Ellobiidae. It is a very small species, with a shell height of less than 2 mm (0.08 in) and a shell width of around 1 mm (0.04 in). Z. tholussum individuals are completely blind and possess translucent shells with five to six ...
Pleurotomariidae, common name the "slit snails", is a family of large marine gastropods in the superfamily Pleurotomarioidea of the subclass Vetigastropoda. [1] This family is a very ancient lineage; there were numerous species in the geological past. The genus includes several hundred fossil forms, mostly Paleozoic.
Carinate flat-top snail (Neoplanorbis carinatus) Angled flat-top snail (Neoplanorbis smithi) Little flat-top snail (Neoplanorbis tantillus) Umbilicate flat-top snail (Neoplanorbis umbilicatus) Fish Lake physa (Physella microstriata) Acorn ramshorn (Planorbella multivolvis) Fish springs marshsnail (Stagnicola pilsbryi)
Kaniakapūpū is the current and most commonly used name of the site and palace. It means "the singing of the land shells" in the Hawaiian language. The name refers to the kāhuli (Oʻahu tree snails) which were once abundant in the area and, according to Hawaiian folklore, able to vocalize and sing sweet songs at night.
The crescent shaped shell of C. paula facilitates entry into the narrow space inside snail shells where they attach to the columellae and siphonal canal via byssal threads. The position and location of attachment anteriorly near the final whorls of the shell is an evolutionary behavior of adult individuals which prevents removal by the host. [5]
Angustopila dominikae is a species of light grey, round, land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Hypselostomatidae. Angustopila dominikae have been found in southern China, and are considered to be one of the world's smallest terrestrial molluscs (the holotype's shell height is 0.86 mm). [1]
Possum-preyed Powelliphanta traversi snail shells. Most of these snails are under serious threat or even in danger of extinction. Their main natural predator is the weka , [ 9 ] but they have no defences against introduced mammalian predators, such as brushtail possums ( Trichosurus vulpecula ), pigs , hedgehogs , [ 10 ] and rats .