Cepaea nemoralis Cepaea nemoralis Cepaea nemoralis Cepaea nemoralis A cool call today that followed up on an identification I did a few years ago. A co-worker’s husband and fellow herper, Dave Broughel, had found a land snail on the wall of his building (NYS Thruway) in Albany, and was wondering about an I.D. ...
A Collaboration of Chitons The Chiton "Belly" Showing the "Foot" Here we have creatures that pretty much have been the same for some 400 million years, the CHITONS. (pronounced KITE-INS). They are a true mollusk, but in their own class known as the Polyplacophorans. While not well known outside shoreline...
categories: INVERTEBRATES, MOLLUSKS
Very Tiny Snail Species A (:0) Very Tiny Snail Species A (:0) Very Tiny Snail Species A (:0) Very Tiny Snail Species A (:0) Very Tiny Snail Species A (:0) More image waiting further ID. This snail species is TINY, and I mean tiny. Probably about 4 mm wide. There’s another species that I see often under debris that...
categories: MOLLUSKS
Maui Slug Fest Maui Slug Fest Maui Slug Fest We were tracking Veiled Chameleons with small telemetry transmitter held onto their body with litte mini halters. On signal we kept getting eminated from a large clump of tropical hibiscus. On the way up to the signal on the larvae, I was stepping on the ubiquous volacanic soiil. ...
categories: MOLLUSKS
Malaysian Trumpet Snail The best shot I could get through water this morning. This is the Malaysian Trumpet snail, Melanoides tuberculata. When I was a kid, this snail was rare in the U.S. as an aquarium “pest” of sorts. It was actually sold for a while in pet shops as well. In some areas of the U.S. this...
categories: MOLLUSKS
