Whelks & periwinkles are marine varieties of this gastropod
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Snails, Welks, Conchs - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab  Class Gastropoda (Snails, Whelks, etc.) ... Periwinkle snail ... M-879, Conus floridanus, a small and less poisonous species, no one has ever died or been stung...
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Common periwinkle - Wikipedia  The common periwinkle or winkle (Littorina littorea) is a species of small edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc that has gills and an operculum, and is...
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Gastropoda - Wikipedia  The marine shelled species of gastropod include edible species such as abalone, conches, periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce...
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Whelk - Wikipedia  Whelk is a common name that is applied to various kinds of sea snail, many of which have ... the word whelk is also applied to some other marine gastropod mollusc species within several families of sea snails that are ... In Scotland, the word "whelk" is also used to mean the periwinkle (Littorina littorea), family Littorinidae.
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Mollusks-Gastropods - NEMESIS Database Species Summary  Gastropods represent the largest class of mollusks and are comprised of marine, ... In marine systems, this includes: periwinkles, top-shells, whelks, limpets, and...
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gastropod | class of mollusks | Britannica.com  Mar 20, 2015 ... The class is made up of the snails, which have a shell... ... A few gastropod types (such as conch, abalone, limpets, and whelks) are ... They can be coiled flatly in one plane, as in Planorbis; become ... and the shells of many of these species are so heavily covered with algae ... Edible snail (Helix pomatia).
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Limpets  The cup-like shape of a limpet's shell means an adaptation to their living space on the rocky shores of the sea, the so-called littoral or tidal zone. Here limpets living higher on the rocks have higher shells, than those living more deeply in the sea.
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Abalone - Wikipedia  Abalone is a common name for any of a group of small to very large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae. ... These snails cling solidly with their broad, muscular foot to rocky surfaces at ... By weight, approximately one-third of the animal is edible meat, one-third is offal, and one-third is shell.
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Common Whelk  The common whelk (Buccinum undatum) is an inhabitant of coastal areas of the ... Like most other sea snails with a shell the whelk also possesses a lid ... The pallial cavity's opening is elongated to form a tube shaped organ called a sipho. ... When it has found a mussel, the whelk waits in front of it, until the mussel has to...
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snails - Search-ID.com  Escargots; Schnecken are spiral-shaped sweet rolls; their name is German for these gastropods; Often found clinging to rocks, limpids are a type of this mollusk...
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Haliotis - Wikipedia  Haliotis, common name abalone (US) or ormer (UK), is the only genus in the family Haliotidae. This genus used to contain 6 subgenera. These subgenera have become alternate representations of Haliotis.[4] The genus consists of small to very large edible herbivorous sea snails, marine ... The soft body is coiled around the columellar muscle, and its insertion,...
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Sponges and Cnidarians | CK-12 Foundation  Feb 29, 2012 ... nacre: The iridescent inner shell layer produced by some bivalves, some gastropods, and some cephalopods; also known as mother of pearl. ... radula: A molluscan feeding structure, composed mostly of chitin. ... The mantle also releases calcium carbonate that creates the external shell, just like the ones...
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MARINE INVERTEBRATES  whelka marine snail shown laying its eggs in the photo aboveis a mollusk ... Bivalves are adapted to breathe underwater by using gill mem- .... These mollusks are also referred to as univalves, meaning one shell, .... Like snails, the limpets graze on ... sea hare (Aplysia) are gastropods that either lack shells or have.
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ARCHIVE - Ostreola conchaphila - marinelife1011  Mar 1, 2011 ... The Ostreola conchaphila is commonly known as the Olympia oyster. ... Olympia Oysters are usually found on rocky substrates near the low tide line or ... Oysters are considered the healthiest when eaten raw on the half shell.
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Conch - Wikipedia  Conch is a common name that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized sea snails or their shells. The term generally applies to large snails whose shell has a high spire and a ... It is locally referred to as lambi. ... Various species of large marine gastropod shells can be turned into "blowing shells", but some...
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jeopardy/2149_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Jon Muir: a lawyer originally from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania ... nudibranch is a snail that, unlike the periwinkle or limpet, lacks one of these | Shell .... BLUE JEAN | Jeans were originally called "waist-high" these, as distinguished from "bib"...
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List of edible molluscs - Topics  These sea snails are edible; some are listed by genus, others by species ... Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all ... Description Chiton magnificus can reach a length of about 50.2 millimetres (1.98 in). ... across the Aleutian Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula and south to Japan .
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All About Seashells - Neatorama  Jun 29, 2015 ... If you put a large seashell to your ear, you can hear the ocean! ... (There are many types of mollusks that make no shells at all, including sea slugs and octopuses.) ... You've probably seen seashells that have a coiled, spiral end (sort of ... It's from here the animal is able to reach out of the shell to move, eat,...
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Gastropoda - Wikipedia  The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large ... The class Gastropoda has an extraordinary diversification of habitats. ... periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce seashells that are ..... Some predatory carnivorous gastropods include, for example: Cone shells,...
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gastropod | class of mollusks | Britannica.com  Mar 20, 2015 ... The class is made up of the snails, which have a shell. ... A few gastropod types (such as conch, abalone, limpets, and whelks) are used as food, ... Some adult marine snails (Homalogyra) and forest-litter snails (Stenopylis, ... Often a number of such shell shapes can be found among species within a single...
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ARCHIVE - Olympia Oyster - marinelife1011  Mar 10, 2011 ... Ostrea Lurida, commonly known as the Olympia Oyster, is a bivalve native to the west coast of ... Upper and Lower valves are usually the same size. .... Oysters are considered the healthiest when eaten raw on the half shell.