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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 ."
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda. Additionally, 1,200 fossil species have been recognized.
An old empty shell of Megastraea undosa, wedged under a rock and covered in the pink coralline alga Lithothamnion, which has cemented it to the substrate.. Megastraea undosa, common name the wavy turban snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [2]
Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails.These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, commonly called "murexes" or "rock snails".
Roughly 500 km northeast of Manila, various shell middens can be found that consist of shells of the predominant species Batissa childreni, a freshwater clam, in highest abundance. [1] The middens are of various sizes and ages with the oldest being carbon dated to 2000 BC and youngest to 100 AD. [ 1 ]
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.
A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape. Rare snails back in Hawaii forest after nearing extinction, officials say Skip ...
Shells of two different species of sea snail: on the left is the normally sinistral (left-handed) shell of Neptunea angulata, on the right is the normally dextral (right-handed) shell of Neptunea despecta The shell of a large land snail (probably Helix pomatia) with parts broken off to show the interior structure. 1 – umbilicus