Web Sites (1 - 10 of 68): Slugs and Snails

FAQ: Snails * - Snails are usually considered disasters in a plant tank, but with dense planting and good plant growing conditions, the right type of snail can be very useful by consuming dead plant material and detritus. Any damage they do cause will be compensated for...
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Snails! * - Snail-related info, links, and pictures. As some of you (those whom I told personally, for the most part) already know, the snail is sort of my animal familiar (heh heh... thanks to Prof. Pentikäinen's classes about shamanism, where I learned this an...
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Thick Tailed Gecko - The Gecko is a nocturnal reptile and is often found under wood that has been collected for campfires (thus, we suppose, is its scientific name). The thick tailed Gecko is dark brownish purple with yellow or white spots and a white belly. They are up to 12...
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Mollusks - Maybe you think that snails, clams, mussels, squid, and octopods are very different. Yet, they are all in the same category of animals known as mollusks and are structurally similar.
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Mollusks - Maybe you think that snails, clams, mussels, squid, and octopods are very different. Yet, they are all in the same category of animals known as mollusks and are structurally similar
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Marbled Salamander Info * - cool facts on this creature's looks, habitat, diet, and habits. Salamanders are characterized by the presence of tail throughout their lives. They have an elongated but stocky, lizard-like body with 2 pairs of limbs, 4 toes on the front limbs, and 5 toes...
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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang * - If you've ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like, "I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, 'Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.'" Something like this isn't too hard to decipher. But what if you en...
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Hellbender - Despite the implications of its common name, this giant salamander is a harmless creature which feeds on crayfish, snails and worms. It has the flattened head characteristic of its family and loose flaps of skin along the lower sides of its body.
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Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle (Trionyx spiniferus spiniferus) * - The eastern spiny softshell turtle is found in West Virginia west of the mountains. They have olive-gray shells that are flat and pancake-like with spins near the rear. Female shells are 18 inches long while males are half this size. Eastern spiny softs
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About Octopi .... * - Octopuses belong to the phylum Mollusca which includes snails, clams and chitons. Their closest relatives are the chambered nautilus, cuttlefish and squids. The largest and smallest octopuses are found off the United States. The largest is the North Paci...
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