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The Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [1] The shells of species in the family Vermetidae are extremely irregular, and do not resemble the average snail shell, hence the common name "worm shells" or "worm snails".
This is a list of the non-marine mollusks of the Indiana Dunes. Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in the state of Indiana , United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. [ 1 ]
Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. [1] During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area. [2] Turtles (Testudinate)
The decollate snail, scientific name Rumina decollata, is a medium-sized predatory land snail, a species of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. [4] It originated in the Mediterranean but has been introduced in a number of areas worldwide. It was recently found to represent a species complex. [5]
J. janthina is a member of the family Janthinidae, snails that trap air bubbles to maintain their positions at the surface of the ocean, where they are predators on hydrozoa. [6] The air bubbles are stabilized by the secretion of amphiphilic mucins which have evolved from epitoniid egg masses. [ 7 ]
Clark State Forest - 25,288.8 acres (19 km 2); Deam Lake State Recreation Area; Ferdinand State Forest - 7,789.9 acres (10 km 2); Frances Slocum State Forest; Greene–Sullivan State Forest – 9,048.8 acres (1.3 km 2); Athens County
The snail takes 30–40 days to hatch and is then considered young (before sexual maturity). Sexual maturity begins between 4 and 16 months after hatching. The snail is relatively fast moving at about 8 mm/s. [3] The snail has a light grey or brown body, with its lower tentacles being long and almost touching the ground.
The Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area occupies a reclaimed area. Much of it was, in former times, the Paul Thompson wetland cattle ranch; parts of the area were surface-mined for coal. Since 2005, the parcel has been under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, with 7,200 acres enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program. [3]