12 unique world of snails

 



Underappreciated gastropod
Snails deserve much more public attention. May they, as a rule, extremely slow, but in no case can not be called boring. There are luminous and transparent snails, gastropods, some equipped with heavy armor or unusually beautiful shells. There are even snails can kill a person. We offer you to get acquainted with the most interesting mollusks of the world, which prove that patience is indeed a virtue.

Snail Hinea flashlight brasiliana

This poorly known sea snail offers the most amazing show with light effects in nature. With the ability to bioluminescence is the creation of a moment of anxiety or threat glows bright green. Researchers believe that this trick helps the snail to scare or confuse predators.

Giant ахатина

These large and hungry gastropods are the largest snails on Earth. They grow to 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters in diameter, approximately corresponding to the size of the palm of an adult. In addition, these snails are very voracious, in their diet includes at least 500 species of plants. If there are vegetables or fruits, these creatures are able to swallow anything, including paint and plaster on the walls. Well at least that they are vegetarians.

Rainbow snail Liguus virgineus

Most of these colorful gastropods in the world living on the island of Haiti, often called rainbow snails. Looking at them, you would think that they are specially painted, but in fact, these shells, this pattern gave Mother Nature.

Pteropod моллюск

They are not like ordinary snails, but these elegant sea creatures are among the most numerous gastropods. As a rule, snails use the leg for movement along the ground, and pteropod molluscs using the process similar to the wing, move through the ocean waters. Some even got rid of the shell for the most efficient navigation.

Тиломелания

This cute mollusk, like a cross between a snail, mango and elephant revives in the brain images of failed genetic experiments. A special "trunk" required the creation of sifting sand in search of food.

"Iron" snail Crysomallon squamiferum

"Iron" snail, discovered in 1999 in the Central Indian ocean at a depth of 3 km, can be the most hard equipped with a clam in the world. Its shell looks like a ring-plate armor, and the impression is not very far from reality. Thus, the carapace of this creature contains metals and sulfides from hydrothermal vents. The outer layer of the shell is covered with iron sulfide, creating a real metal plate.

"Melting" улитка

Leg of the South American snails with flat body of the genus Megalobulimus can greatly stretch out, becoming so thin that it seems as if the creation melts. In some species this analogy is incredibly accurate.

Geographical конус

But this snail should be treated with caution, as it is the most poisonous mollusc that exists on the planet. The venom of the geographic cone is a complex combination of hundreds of toxins, and it fired with gabonamong of the tooth, located in the flexible proboscis. Although this snail is like the other fellow moves slowly, it is "spitting" are almost the fastest animals in the world, because this poison harpoon is able to achieve 640 miles per hour.

Antina ломкая

Lovely purple shell is only part of the features by which these snails are of particular interest. Antony unbreakable (Off off) collect the air bubbles with the help of his slime and bubble raft to make the long journey through the oceans.

Snails Opisthostoma

Opisthostoma is a genus of tiny land snails, which can boast perhaps the most unusual sinks in the world of shellfish. In many species of these creatures shells are twisted, creating a complex and intricate structure, but a snail-Opisthostoma vermiculum worm has a unique structure of the shell. She has four axis of the Curling, which is more than any known gastropod.

Croatian cave улитка

Creepy creatures, recently discovered in Croatia in one of the deepest cave systems in the world Velebit, particularly distinguished by the fact that they are almost completely transparent. Visible through gastropods are the real cave dwellers are blind.

Hairy улитка

Sink deadliest species in the world gastropod belongs to the hairy snail is sticking out of her education, similar to spikes. But despite the voracity, the menu of this establishment consists of mostly vegetarian dishes.

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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