Sentences with phrase «land snail»

The giant African land snail has invaded the state and since they have no natural enemies ~ the snails are causing quite a problem.

The giant African land snail like to nibble on plaster and stucco to get calcium for their shells.

And ~ the giant African land snail multiplies quickly.

The giant African land snail has invaded...

Mitochondrial phylogeography of the land snail Cornu aspersum: Tracing population history and the impact of human - mediated invasion in austral South America.

Contingency and determinism during convergent contemporary evolution in the polymorphic land snail, Cepaea nemoralis.

The snails in question are of the giant African land snail species Achatina fulica, which can grow shells up to 20 centimeters long.

This image shows one of the last remaining amastrid land snail species on O'ahu, Laminella sanguinea, in the Waianae Mountains.

«We showed, based on extrapolation from a random sample of land snail species from all over the world, and via two independent approaches, that we may already have lost 7 percent (130,000 extinctions) of all the animal species on Earth,» said Robert Cowie, research professor at PBRC and co-author of the two studies.

One species of land snail actively avoids crossing roads, even narrow, unpaved ones.

South Pacific land snails are rare to begin with, but they have taken a hit in the last few decades after residents of Raiatea, in the Society Island chain some 5000 kilometers south of Hawaii, began importing predatory snails from Florida in 1986 to eat another kind of pest snail.

The newly discovered species belongs to a genus of minute air - breathing land snails that have lost visual orientation and are considered to be true eutroglobionts, or exclusive cave - dwellers.

Pruthu's team predicted that many small mammals, land snails, reptiles, and amphibians would have drowned.

«It is a most valuable study,» says Bruno Baur of the University of Basel in Switzerland who studies sexual behavior of land snails.

Zoologist Ronald Chase of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who studies the use of «love darts» in hermaphroditic land snails (ScienceNOW, 6 July) and sees his share of bizarre mollusk mating, calls this version «very strange.»

The team focused on the most diverse group of Hawaiian land snails, known as the family Amastridae, of which 325 species have been recognized — all known only from Hawai'i.

Studies of land snails from the Brochtorff Circle (as early as 4000 B.C.E.) and pollen from Marsa on Malta near Valletta (as early as 3600 B.C.E.) confirm this relatively treeless landscape, similar to that of today.

Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea flatworm, consumes land snails and thus endangers endemic species.

The predatory worms have already helped drive several species of land snails to extinction in parts of the Pacific Islands.

Some 95 percent of catalogued species in one family of Hawaiian land snails could already be extinct, and similar rates of invertebrate extinction could be happening around the world.

By COLIN TUDGEThere are three powerful reasons why the name of Partula — small land snails from the high volcanic Pacific islands — is writ large in late 20th - century biology.

Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.

Exploring the functional association between physiological plasticity, climatic variability, and geographical latitude: lessons from land snails.

Morse also illustrated his article, «The Land Snails of New England,» in that issue, though those snails are less studious.

As an undergraduate, while interning at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, she described two new species of land snails.

As part of the UC Molecular Phylogeny Lab, she used mitochondrial DNA to reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships among several species of California land snails.

Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.

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The whimsical children's store Land of Nod makes this activity floor mat with whales, snails, jellyfish, and other undersea creatures.

So little of it has been explored, she says, and it is so much harder than on land to see what is going on that there is no way to be sure that mining is not extinguishing species; we haven't had time to discover the snail darters and spotted owls.

It has been happening at a snail's pace so far, but as it speeds up more and more low - lying coastal land will be lost.

In March marine scientists explored a container that landed off California in 2004 and saw crabs, octopuses, and snails living on and around it.

On land, snails and slugs — the Gastropods — are confined to terrestrial prison, but in the ocean, they are free to shed their shells and fly.

Especially in areas where land use changes are expected to be most severe, is where insect larvae, snails, worms and leeches might become endangered.

(The taxonomic class Gastropoda encompasses all snails, be they freshwater, marine or land - based.)

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.

On land they feed on seal and sea lion carcasses, as well as cockles, starfish, limpets and snails in the intertidal zone.

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to be used for drinking water Less evaporation from the storage reservoir Little loss of land No damage due to dam failure Pollutants such as mosquitoes and snails can not exist in the reservoirs Siltation does not create any problems Less vulnerable / below the ground surface in a shallow soil toward the impervious crystalline sub soil.

Accordingly, a background — and yes, common — concern for the plight of rare species of birds, snails, polar bears, landed country estates, whales, trees, the panda and starving and diseased babies are amplified by climate change alarmism, to preclude a democratic discussion about our «common» future.

Back in the day, you would send your resume and cover letter via snail mail and hope that it at least landed on the desk of someone at the company.