Sentences with phrase «sea snails include»

Sea snails include all the different animals that inhabit shells — oysters, clams, cowries, scallops, conchs, whelks, turbo, cones, Trochus, Nerite, Nassarius, etc..

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Most species were invertebrates, including snails, worms and sea anemones.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

The animals include boring clams (lower left), polychaete worms (upper left and lower right), snails and limpets (bottom), shrimp - like tanaids and amphipods (center), and a crinoid sea lily (middle right).

There is a large variety such marine vegetation, particularly sea weed, and numerous organisms include abalone, anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, sculpin, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea palms, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, surf grass, tube worms, and whelks.

Previous works from Yeung include plants and sea snails in vitrines, palm - tree shaped candle stands, and other references to natural scenery.

Snails can be found in a very wide range of environments, including ditches, deserts, and the abyssal depths of the sea.

While the brittle star's perks are notable, this is really a story about the mighty sea cucumber, who plays host to a whole tiny ecosystem of creatures, notes bioGraphic, «including clams that take up residence in cucumber throats, fish and crabs that colonize their anuses, and worms and snails that drink their bodily fluids.»

These include shellfish, snails, starfish, sea urchins and some sea worms that play an important part in cycling minerals in the ocean mud.