What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

A team of Japanese and Thai researchers has found four species of luminous land snails, only the second such discovery after one came to light in 1943. Scientists from Chubu University in Kasugai ...

The first task on our 1999 - 2002 Sri Lankan project was to compile an illustrated land snail species list for Sri Lanka. This was our starting point for assembling current knowledge and was published ...

Naggs, F. & Raheem, D. 2005. Sri Lankan snail diversity: faunal origins and future prospects. Records of the Western Australia Museum Supplement No. 68: 11-29 [ View as PDF (26MB) ] Naggs, F., Raheem, ...

What is the Partula snail? Also known as the Polynesian tree snail or niho tree snail, the Partula snail (Partula nodosa) is actually one of several snail species of the genus—all of which are ...

This land snail species, scientifically called Calybium plicatus sp. nov., belongs to the Calybium genus, the Helicinidae family, the Cycloneritida order, and the Gastropoda class, within the ...

Scientists have discovered a new land snail species, Calybium plicatus, in the first sinkhole of Son Doong Cave, underscoring Vietnam’s extraordinary biodiversity. Specimen of the newly discovered ...

The Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park currently records 2,954 species of higher plants, belonging to 1,007 genera, 198 families, 63 orders, 12 classes, and six phyla, including 111 species in ...