Portal:Gastropods/Did you know/7

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  • Indoplanorbis exustus
    (pictured) is an important intermediate host for several trematode parasites?
  • a shell
    Gulella streptostelopsis
    ... that the minute land snail Gulella streptostelopsis (shell pictured) may in fact represent an as yet unnamed genus?
  • ... that the freshwater snail family
    Helicostoidae
    contains only one species?


  • a yellow snail with brown shell in an aquarium
    Pomacea bridgesii
    ... that within the class Gastropoda there are 33 families that contain species of freshwater snails (one species pictured)?