#gastropod

[herpsandbirds]

Asian Green Land Snail (Leptopoma perlucidum), family Cyclophoridae, found in Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and the Solomon Islands

photograph by scraf

[briery]

Epigenised (Opal-CT, Lussatite) Helix Ramondi snail fossil, from Dallet, Puy-De-Dôme, France.

[midnitemoontrip]

What if you looked in the grass and saw a cat snail looking back at you?

[typhlonectes]

Snails in the genus Julia have a bivalved shell, like a clam!

Even though they have a clam like shell, with 2 sections, they are in fact snails (class Gastropoda). Julia are marine snails, found throughout the Indo-Pacific. There are 6 species which are various shades of green. They are tiny, only reaching a length of up to 6 mm long. These snails feed on algae, and incorporate the chloroplasts from the algae into their bodies. Some of the chloroplasts remain photosynthetic, and the snails are able to feed on the products of this photosynthesis. This process is called kleptoplasty.

Photos: Julia sp. from Australia  - profmollusc | Inaturalist cc; Julia exquisita from Reuinion Island - Alexandre LaPorte | Wikipedia cc

[dinoserious]

invertober day 4, emerald green snail!!

[canisalbus]

I know you have your little umbreon/claydol sona you use to represent yourself occasionally, but I just keep envisioning you as some kind of conch snail delicately peeking it's eyestalks out cautiously, before throwing artwork on par with Italian Renaissance painters into the fucking wind

Real life footage of tumblr user canisalbus.

[artofmaquenda]

💙 The Lovers 💙

My new favorite artwork haha, I loved working on it so much as I missed drawing slugs :)

Prints are available: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1555609657/

[vintagewildlife]

Roman snail ovipositing By: Hans Pfletschinger From: Natural History Magazine 1977

[crevicedwelling]

here’s an interesting mollusc I saw in Singapore: the yellow-shelled semi-slug, Parmarion martensi. with a much-reduced shell that’s mostly kept covered in tissue, it looks much like its name implies: something between slug and snail.

“slug,” though, is really an evolutionary state and not a neat taxonomic grouping: slugs have evolved many times independently from shelled ancestors. in fact, many apparently shell-less slugs retain a tiny flat spiral of calcified shell inside their bodies. in this species, the shell isn’t so greatly reduced, but still too small to hide within.

while some gastropod families are entirely shell-less (all slugs), Parmarion has close relatives with shells and others that have progressed even further towards slugdom!

[plushieanimals]

bleu bleuet gyogyogyo deep sea mascots ✨

[herpsandbirds]

2 color varieties of the Land Snail, Helicina viridis, family Helicinidae, Dominican Republic

photographs by Carlos De Soto Molinari

[jastard]

So butch snails

[apsciencebydan]

Wee-Halud 🥹

[opossuppy]

Slug Activities

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @plesiosaurys