| It looks an impossible job when a soft-bellied gastropod like the triton tries to demolish a spiky crown of thorns starfish. |
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| The gastropod assemblage suggests an Albian age and the echinoid assemblage reportedly indicates a late Albian age. |
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| Likewise, I found no increase in gastropod richness from the Campanian to the Eocene. |
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| The Oormer is a single-shelled gastropod that crawls over the rocks feeding on algae. |
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| It is a marine gastropod that swims by rhythmically flapping its wing-like parapodia. |
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| Improved understanding of gastropod phylogenetics goes far beyond satisfying the trivial curiosities of malacologists. |
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| The fluid, lolloping gait of the bearded gastropod demands the use of reins by the rider both for balance and for control. |
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| A relevant example is that of spiral sculpture in the gastropod Nucella emarginata, which ranges from strongly sculptured to smooth. |
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| The columellar location of the gastropod retractor muscle is thought to be an effect of torsion. |
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| Freshwater clams first appear along with an increase in gastropod, bony fish, and shark diversity. |
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| It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus. |
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| In all of these fossils, the symbiotic colony covers the entire external surface of a gastropod shell with a thick encrustation. |
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| They put their abdomen into gastropod mollusc shell which they carry on their back for protection. |
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| Those that do live on top of the mud have protective shells: gastropod molluscs like the periwinkle. |
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| A gastropod mollusk, the snail is a terrestrial herbivorous animal that lives inside a spiral shell. |
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| There are one or two other eyes in gastropod mollusks that could qualify as pinhole eyes, notably those of the abalone genus Haliotis. |
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| This extant gastropod, like its Pennsylvanian relative, is dominantly a deposit feeder, grazing on vegetable detritus and algae within seasonal alluvial channels. |
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| Bivalve molluscs may also be grown together with gastropod molluscs, such as periwinkles, in polyculture. |
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| The modern trackways all had drag traces from gastropod shells. |
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| A symposium on prosobranch phylogeny was held in 1986 which resulted in several papers using cladistic analysis to produce phylogenetic hypotheses of various gastropod groups. |
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| Although sinistral individuals are known in many normally dextral species, left-handedness as a characteristic of species is rare in most gastropod clades. |
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| Both spiney lobsters and hermit crabs have been observed attacking gastropods in this fashion and both produce the distinctive notched gastropod remains. |
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| Cone snails are marine gastropod molluscs that live in the shallow waters of tropical oceans. |
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| Placostylus ambagiosus pandora is a subspecies of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae. |
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| The macrofauna is especially marked by the abundance of the Cyclope neritea gastropod. |
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| The Metro Vancouver area and Lower Fraser Valley have habitats that contain unique butterfly, beetle, moth, pollinator and gastropod species. |
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| Snail, a gastropod, especially one having an enclosing shell, into which it may retract completely for protection. |
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| The scarce fossil record consists of bivalve and gastropod debris. |
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| The gerontic whorl of gastropod genera of the subfamily Mitchelliinae is twisted both outwards and backwards, but not upwards as in members of the subfamily Scoliostomatinae. |
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| This interpretation is also indirectly supported by the close stratigraphic occurrence of these gastropod genera having such an unusual gerontic aperture. |
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| The snail-eating Hyposmocoma molluscivora is the only lepidopteran known to feed on a type of gastropod. |
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| Of these, 28 are bivalve shellfish, 27 are fish, ten are algae, three are gastropod molluscs, and one is a flowering plant. |
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| The foot of a gastropod is a flat structure used for crawling. |
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| The influence of environmental stimuli on the direction of movement of the supralittoral gastropod Littorina irrorata. |
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| The Mud Dog Whelk is a small gastropod which can measure up to two cm. |
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| Although successful as a biological control agent, P. manokwari is now considered a significant threat to native gastropod species, including rare and endemic species, in the areas where it was introduced. |
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| This gastropod lives at 2400 meters deep, in acid environment, temperature being around 300°C and their neighbours being Brachyura crab with super powerful claws! |
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| The Queen conch, Strombus gigas, is a gastropod widely distributed in the Caribbean. |
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| These included the gastropod Turritella alabamiensis, which was mainly represented by phosphatic internal molds. |
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| The Opisthobranchia are one of the more prominent gastropod lineages that have undergone euthyneury. |
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| Vermetid gastropod Petaloconchus intortus attached to a branch of the coral Cladocora from the Pliocene of Cyprus. |
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| That intruding gastropod was as much a legal fiction as the Casual Ejector. |
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| However, a few terrestrial gastropod surveys have been conducted within Tennessee. |
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| Thais haemastoma is a large gastropod with a strong columellar muscle and heat may have made prying them from their shells easier. |
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| Interclonat variation in the acute and delayed toxicity of cadmium to the European prosobranch gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum. |
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| Lobsters, crawfish, and bivalve and gastropod molluscs belonging to any such species for which a minimum size is set in Annex VI may only be retained on board wholeandmayonlybelandedwhole. |
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| The most common gastropod is the periwinkle. |
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| Heston Blumenthal, mingler of lab and kitchen, purveyor of gastropod porridge and architect of out-sized exercises in edible nostalgia, has added a sixth Michelin star to his growing empire. |
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| A gastropod lacking a shell is commonly called a slug or sea slug. |
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| There are also 14 gastropod species that live only in greenhouses. |
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| The gastropod Turritella carinata from the Pliocene of Cyprus. |
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| One example of asymmetric invertebrates include all gastropod species. |
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| A gastropod and attached serpulid wormtube from the Pliocene of Cyprus. |
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| A neurotrophic herpes virus infecting the gastropod, abalone, shares ancestry with oyster herpes virus and a herpes virus associated with amphioxus genome. |
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| In addition there are 14 gastropod species that live only in greenhouses. |
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| The interspecific and intraspecific competition for food has a considerable effect on gastropod density and growth rates in rocky intertidal habitats. |
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| It has been shown that shell characters in gastropod phylogeny reconstructions are no more prone to homoplasies than are other types of morphological characters. |
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| The origin of gastropod asymmetry is a subject of scientific debate. |
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| These are the myriapods, the gastropod slugs and the Trichoptera. |
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