On the verge of extinction – revision of a highly endangered Swiss alpine snail with description of a new genus, Raeticella gen. nov. (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Hygromiidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 The phylogenetic status of the alpine land snail Fruticicola biconica has remained questionable since it was described by Eder in 1917. Considered a microendemic species from mountain tops in Central Switzerland, the shell is specially adapted for life ...
Jeannette Kneubühler +2 more
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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Proteins Extracted from Seven Different Snails
Applied Sciences, 2018 Snails have been used both as a food and as a treatment for a variety of medicinal conditions. In this study, seven different snail proteins were evaluated for their antimicrobial activity. Fresh water and land snails of seven different live species were
Selvakumari Ulagesan, Hak Jun Kim
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An Assessment of Snail-Farm Systems Based on Land Use and Farm Components
Animals, 2021 Simple Summary This study’s goal was a thorough analysis and a detailed characterization of commercial snail farms in Greece, considering the unstructured development of the snail-farming sector over recent years.
K. Apostolou +3 more
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Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O`ahu
Internet Archaeology, 2001 In this article we show that the interpretation of Polynesian influence drawn from the stratigraphic record of sub-fossil land snails at Kalaeloa (O'ahu, Hawai'i) is based on a unique stratigraphic sequence at a single sinkhole.
T.S. Dye , H.D. Tuggle
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Prvý nález živej populácie ulitníka Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849) na Podunajskej nížine [PDF]
Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2014 Until 2013, no published records of the Desmoulin's whorl snail (Vertigo moulinsiana) were known from the Danube lowland in the Slovak Republic. In this paper we present the first record of the Desmoulin's whorl snail in this area, and report the site ...
Tomáš Čejka +2 more
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Listing, impact assessment and prioritization of introduced land snail and slug species in Indonesia
Journal of molluscan studies, 2019 As the basis for an assessment of the impact of introduced land snail and slug species in Indonesia, we provide a list of these species and specify their distribution in Indonesia, their native range, their habitats and their earliest recorded occurrence
A. S. Nurinsiyah, B. Hausdorf
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Prey-tracking behavior and prey preferences in a tree-climbing firefly [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Prey-tracking behavior is common in snail-killing predators, but in the family Lampyridae, this behavior has been validated in only a single species even though this Coleopteran family includes many specialist snail predators.
Nozomu Sato
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Nové nálezy tmavoretky bělavé Monacha cartusiana (O. F. Müller, 1774) ve Strakonicích a okolí [PDF]
Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2023 The thermophilous land snail Monacha cartusiana has been spreading in Central Europe in recent years, presumably as a consequence of warming. In the years 2020–2022, several new localities of this snail were discovered in Strakonice, Horažďovice, and ...
Vilém Hrdlička, Eva Legátová
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Journal of molluscan studies, 2019 We investigated the land snail fauna of the Panguana conservation area on the western rim of the Amazonas basin in Peru. A total of 2,322 individuals assigned to 65 land snail species were collected in 32 plots.
Birte Wendebourg, B. Hausdorf
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Diversity and biotic homogenization of urban land-snail faunas in relation to habitat types and macroclimate in 32 central European cities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The effects of non-native species invasions on community diversity and biotic homogenization have been described for various taxa in urban environments, but not for land snails.
Michal Horsák +4 more
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