Sentences with phrase «land snails»
"Land snails" refers to a type of snail that lives on land instead of in water. Full definition
«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.
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The snails in question are of the giant African land snail species Achatina fulica, which can grow shells up to 20 centimeters long.
The snails in question are of the giant African land snail species Achatina fulica, which can grow shells up to 20 centimeters long.
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.
In the rainforests of Borneo, the smallest land snail known to science ekes out a secret existence in limestone cracks.
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.
Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.
Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.
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.
Because the apparent killer does not infect other land snails, Daszak says, by killing off P. turgida it may have sealed its own fate.
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.
Focused on terrestrial gastropods, more commonly known as land snails, a joint team of biologists from the Natural History Museum of Stuttgart, Germany and the Zoology Museum of São Paulo, Brazil, have been researching the Brazilian caves.
One species of land snail actively avoids crossing roads, even narrow, unpaved ones.
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.»
This image shows one of the last remaining amastrid land snail species on O'ahu, Laminella sanguinea, in the Waianae Mountains.
Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea flatworm, consumes land snails and thus endangers endemic species.
And ~ the giant African land snail multiplies quickly.
The giant African land snail like to nibble on plaster and stucco to get calcium for their shells.
Pici Pici Kids Club at Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan, Pici Pici means «little snails» in the local tongue, inspired by the naturally occurring land snails that you can normally find throughout the lush tropical gardens and rice fields of this magnificent resort — and your villa grounds — overlooking the Ayung River Valley.
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.
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.
For the first time, scientists have documented an infection wiping out an entire species, in this case a type of land snail.
However, apart from filling important gaps in the knowledge of these tropical animals, they went even further, having discovered a land snail new to science.
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.
The predatory worms have already helped drive several species of land snails to extinction in parts of the Pacific Islands.
Morse also illustrated his article, «The Land Snails of New England,» in that issue, though those snails are less studious.
The giant African land snail has invaded the state and since they have no natural enemies ~ the snails are causing quite a problem.
Write a day in the life of the giant African Land snail.
«In a day we'll perhaps treat a peregrine falcon, a bearded dragon, a rabbit, an African grey parrot, and sometimes even an emu, a scorpion or a giant African land snail.»