“THE want of a handy work of reference, giving in a convenient form descriptions and figures of all the British non-marine Gastropods,” inspired the author to attempt the present publication. He has, ...

Terrestrial snails which live under dry and hot conditions need efficient mechanisms of adaptation to counteract the problems of desiccation and over-heating. A profoundly heat tolerant snail species ...

Definitions and etymology -- 1. Our relationship with the snail -- 2. The quintessential snail -- 3. Sense and sensibility -- 4. A brief history of snails -- 5. Sex and the single snail -- 6. Garlic ...

Snails (Gastropoda) are a stroke of luck for paleontologists: because of their hard shells, these animals are very often preserved as fossils. Snails therefore form an important and well represented ...

The presence of sibling species within the marine gastropod genus Crepipatella has complicated the taxonomy of members of the group. Since the establishment of the genus, 15 species have been ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see; a team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw art. An international group of malacologists (researchers studying molluscs) led by ...