Gastropoda

Cone Snail For centuries, the shells of the cone snail have been used as currency within small communities. Their shells each have unique patterns to them, making it great for jewelry and art pieces. But don’t let their innocent looks fool you. The cone snail is one of the deadliest animals in the world, mainly found in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and the Caribbean and Red seas. These creatures, like bees, aren’t aggressive until you mess with them. Many scientists are inspired by this deadly creature and want to try to flip it around. Rather than a killing snail, maybe a curing snail. If you’ve ever watched the movie ‘Jurassic Park’, you may know of the Lindstradt Air Gun. This gun was full of poisonous venom, from the cone snail. It…

Literary Review on White Abalone 1 A Review of Scientific Literature Regarding the Endangered White Abalone By Steven Tran The white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, is a beautiful creature that attracts divers to the mesmerizing dive sites in California (Barboza 2012). These abalones are known to inhabit the waters of the coast of California from Point Conception to as far as Punta Abreojos in Baja California and can be found in some of the deepest waters recorded for abalone in up 50 meters of…

Brachiopoda, Inarticulata and Articulata, are differentiated by their hinges. Inarticulata, the more primitive of Brachiopoda, possess a simple, smooth hinged while the Articulata class have a complex, teethed hinge. Despite their differences in hinges, all Brachiopods have a mantle, a trait which is shared with the phylum Mollusca. Mollusca can be differentiated from the rest of the supergroup Unikonta by the presence of a foot. The foot, a modified appendage which offers anchorage and…

own ecological niche for marine organisms. But there is some marine life that are able to live in patchiness within zones and thrive in more than one. The high intertidal zones are home to marine life that are more tolerant to air, like barnacles (Ricketts et al. 1968). The mid zone includes higher low water and lower low water, which can be indicated by limpets (Ricketts et al. 1968). Last the low zone includes those that are normally uncovered during minus tides (Ricketts et al. 1968).…

Canadensis is affected by various soil types (compare its growth in various soils) and its capacity to outcompete a broader variety of surrounding plants by exposing it to different species. Limitations are noticeable such as other factors that could account for Solidago Canadensis capacity to outcompete other species (such as exposure to sunlight). 4. During the identification work, a variety of animals were identified (by their physical characteristics or by noises produced) not only in the…

.. didn’t appeal and wouldn’t attract too much interest from the general public, this and the fact I hated history and apart from knowing of Genghis Khan I knew absolutely nothing about Mongolia or it’s goats, so after very much mind-bending thought, I decided to write the following tale of a poorly thought of, not too attractive species of slug known as a shell-less terrestrial gastropodic mollusk…. please be kind….. here goes:- Chapter 1…. My Life’s an Empty Shell. Once upon a time there…