‘Some snails even eat other snails! They use their radula to drill through the other snail’s shell,’ says Jon. These snail-killing snails have arrived in the UK on plants and in soil from tropical and ...

The phylum Mollusca accounts for over 50,000 species ... When the coast is clear, the animals eat by running a tongue-like appendage, known as a radula, across the rock surface. The teeth attached to ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

The radula features up to 12,000 teeth ... But snails arent part of the same family as the bugs in your yard. Instead, theyre mollusks, a group that also includes slugs, octopi, and squid.

The Mollusca collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant in the world, constantly in demand by the malacological research community. The type collection is the most scientifically ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...

are gastropod mollusks, closely related to the more familiar ... a single puncture from their venomous radula (modified tooth) can rapidly paralyze and even kill a human. Of course, coneshells ...

Demand for the succulent molluscs skyrocketed as the city’s population boomed; at the same time, pollution in the harbour escalated, and by 1927, the oyster-reef ecosystem had collapsed.

A group of marine biologists confirmed of the presence in the waters of Cebu City a species of mollusk that is listed as critically endangered. The noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis), a marine bivalve ...

Dillon, Robert T. Wethington, Amy R. Rhett, J. Matthew and Smith, Thomas P. 2002. Populations of the European freshwater pulmonate Physa acuta are not reproductively ...

When buying live molluscs, look for those with shells that are smooth and shiny. The shells of clams, cockles, mussels and oysters should be tightly shut or should shut immediately if you tap them ...