A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as slugs).

Below is a brief introduction to the 10 land snail families present in the Hawaiian Islands, listed from most speciose to least. The family Amastridae is the most speciose family in the islands with 325 described species. Even more special is the fact that the entire family is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

2024年11月26日 · Land snail, any of the approximately 35,000 species of snails (phylum Mollusca) adapted to life away from water. Most species are members of the subclass Pulmonata (class Gastropoda); a few are members of the subclass Prosobranchia. Typically, land snails live on or near the ground, feed on.

2015年1月18日 · Land snails found terrestrial life to their liking and now live just about everywhere, from deserts to tropics, from sea level to mountaintops, and in all parts of the world except Antarctica. Around the world, there are about forty thousand species of snails living on land, in freshwater, and salty seas.

Land snails, those little creatures that we can find in gardens and forests, are much more than just a presence in our ecosystem. Their diversity, adaptability and uniqueness make them a fascinating part of our planet's biodiversity.

2024年10月5日 · "Delve into the fascinating world of land snails. In this article, we take an in-depth look at their unique habitat and distinctive features. From their spiral shell to their dietary habits, discover a host of fascinating facts about these terrestrial creatures.

6 天之前 · This past April, Hawaii enacted a law to designate nine species of kāhuli—the Hawaiian word for the native land snails—as the state’s official snails. At an event held for the signing of ...

2005年10月22日 · The term “land snails” includes snails and slugs, which have no obvious shell. These terrestrial mollusks feed upon a wide variety of organic material, mainly green or dead herbaceous plants, rotting wood and fungi, bark and algae, but they also consume empty snail shells, sap, animal scats and carcasses, and even rasp limestone rock or cement.

beginner is that there is no simple, fool-proof way of recognising that a snail is immature. Many species have. Mouth with coloured thickening (top left, Cepaea nemoralis); white flange (Helicigona lapicida); white flange and one tooth (Lauria cylindracea); flange and 4-5 teeth (Leiostyla anglica).

The Hawaiian land snail fauna is arguably the most diverse in the world in relation to land area: >750 recognized species in only 10 families. Unfortunately, the highest number of documented extinctions of any taxonomic group since the 1500s are Pacific island land snails.