-
reproductive adaptations of
gastropods vary
significantly from one
clade or
group to another, so
stating many
generalities for all
gastropods is difficult. The...
- also vary greatly. In many
marine gastropods,
there are
separate ****es (male and female); most
terrestrial gastropods however are hermaphrodites.[citation...
- the left-hand side. This
chirality of
gastropods is
sometimes overlooked when
photographs of
coiled gastropods are "flipped" by a non-expert
prior to...
- m**** of
larval gastropods is not the same
thing as the
spiral coiling of the s****,
which is also
present in many s****ed
gastropods.
There are two different...
-
terrestrial slugs. Most
creatures known as sea
slugs are
gastropods, i.e. they are sea
snails (marine
gastropod mollusks) that, over
evolutionary time, have either...
-
gastropods (3,795–3,972). As of 2023
there are
known 5182
species of
fossil freshwater gastropods. At
least 33–38
independent lineages of
gastropods have...
- The
sensory organs of
gastropods (snails and slugs)
include olfactory organs, eyes,
statocysts and mechanoreceptors.
Gastropods have no
sense of hearing...
- of
gastropods is the
study of the
distribution of the
biodiversity of
gastropods over
space and time. The
study of the
biogeography of
gastropods is within...
-
structure is
found in some
marine and
freshwater gastropods, and in a
minority of
terrestrial gastropods,
including the
families Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae...
-
Terrestrial gastropods are
primarily herbivores and only a few
groups are carnivorous.
Carnivorous gastropods usually feed on
other gastropod species or...
