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Updated DYK queryDid you know? section on the Wikipedia Main Page has included interesting facts (aka "hooks") from the following gastropod-related articles. In addition some of the hooks listed were created specially for the Portal and did not appear as a Main Page DYK.

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Recognized content.

2011

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  • drawing of apertural view of a brown elongate shell
    a shell of Madagasikara johnsoni
    ... that nothing is known about the anatomy of the 7 cm long freshwater snail Madagasikara johnsoni (shell pictured)?
  • drawing of apertural view of a brown elongate shell with axial ribs
    a shell of Madagasikara spinosa
    ... that Madagasikara spinosa (shell pictured) is the type species of the poorly known genus Madagasicara from Madagascar?
  • ... that in the computer game Steg, an adult slug feeds young slugs with maggots caught in bubbles of slime?





  • ... that the upthrust of Stark's Knob has been studied using snails between pillows?


  • photo of apertural view of a shell
    a shell of Clappia cahabensis
    ... that both species of freshwater snails in the genus Clappia were thought to be extinct, but Clappia cahabensis (shell pictured) is believed to have survived?
  • right view and dorsal view of a green-brown semi-slug
    drawing of two views of Cryptella canariensis
    ... that there are more species of semi-slugs (example pictured) than of slugs?
  • drawing of apertural view of a sinistral shell
    shell of Lanistes ovum
    ... that the shell of Lanistes (pictured) appears to be sinistral, but the body is dextral?
  • A photo of right side of the crawling snail
    live Theba pisana
    ... that Theba pisana (pictured) is an invasive land snail?


  • A photo of right side of the crawling snail
    live Cepaea nemoralis
    ... that the coloration of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis (pictured) has recently been the subject of a citizen science project in Europe?
  • A photo of one dark and one albino snails
    two live Pseudofusulus varians
    ... that the land snail Pseudofusulus varians (pictured) is endangered in the whole of Europe?
  • A photo of bronze statue of sitting man holding a gastropod shell
    statue of Spiridon Brusina
    ... that there is a statue of the Croatian malacologist Spiridon Brusina (pictured) in Zagreb?




  • A drawing of a lymnaeid shell
    apertural view of the shell of Radix natalensis
    ... that Radix natalensis (shell pictured) is a widespread freshwater snail in Africa?



  • A photograph of brown larva with head inside the shell of a snail
    larva of Alecton discoidalis predation a snail Oleacina sp.
    ... that the larva of the Cuban endemic firefly Alecton discoidalis (pictured) attacks land snails, including carnivorous ones?


  • ... that Otina ovata has huge eyes, no tentacles, and is the only species in the family Otinidae?


  • ... that Lymnaeidae are of major medical and veterinary importance since they act as vectors of parasites?


  • drawing of the apertural view of decollated elongate-conic shell
    shell of Cerithidea decollata
    ... that Cerithidea decollata (shell pictured) is a sea snail that can foresee the future?

2010

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  • a sea brown land slug
    live Deroceras laeve
    ... that the land slug Deroceras laeve (pictured) goes deliberately into water?
  • apertural view of the shell
    shell of Bullacta exarata
    ... that the Korean mud snail Bullacta exarata (shell pictured) is a commercially important sea snail in eastern China?


  • black adhesive substance on the wooden log
    birch-tar
    ... that birch-tar oil (birch-tar pictured) is an effective repellent of gastropods?


  • snail with red-brown shell
    Laevaricella perlucens
    ... that the land snail Laevaricella perlucens (pictured) was figured for the first time 141 years after it was officially described?
  • apertural view
    shell of Achatina vassei
    ... that shells of Achatina vassei (pictured) are held by only two museums worldwide?




  • photo of an blue slug
    Bielzia coerulans
    ... that the blue Carpathian slug Bielzia coerulans (pictured) is brown when it is a juvenile?
  • portrait
    Wilhelm Dunker
    ... that the German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist Wilhelm Dunker (pictured) was one of the most important malacologists of his time?
  • general view of orange snail
    Amphibulima patula
    ... that the land snail Amphibulima patula (pictured) can be either orange-yellowish or brown?


  • general view of Tandonia budapestensis
    Tandonia budapestensis
    ... that the copulation of slug Tandonia budapestensis (pictured) may last 15 hours or more?
  • apertural (on the left) and abapertural slender shells
    Shell of Inchoatia haussknechti
    ... that snails from the genus Inchoatia (shells pictured) live only in Greece?


  • interior of the shell is white with darker spots and bars
    basal view of Macklintockia scabra
    ... that the snail Macklintockia scabra (pictured) has ghostly bars on the inside of the shell?



  • a live Indoplanorbis exustus
    Indoplanorbis exustus
    ... that the widely distributed Asian freshwater snail 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?


  • 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)?







  • ... that populations of Deroceras rodnae from western Europe (for example from Germany) were identified as Deroceras juranum in 2009, and that these two species are externally indistinguishable?



  • ... that Conus ebraeus (a shell pictured) prefers different prey at different localities?
  • ... that New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall (pictured) also studied fossil gastropods?
  • ... that the Belgian malacologist Paul Pelseneer described 43 new marine species?






  • ...that because of its aquatic origin and resemblance to the vulva, the shankha (carved examples pictured) is linked with female fertility and is an integral part of Tantric rites?

2009

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  • ...that although Fiona pinnata (pictured) lives in open sea worldwide, it cannot swim?


  • ...that empty shells of the land snail Paryphanta busbyi (shell pictured) explode when they dry out?
  • ...that Quantula striata is the only land snail that gives off flashes of light?



  • ...that the land snail Euglandina rosea is a significant threat to the freshwater snail known as Newcomb's snail Erinna newcombi (pictured) from Hawaii, because the predatory Euglandina is able to hunt Erinna under water?
  • ...that non-marine molluscs are one of the most imperilled groups of animals: numerous species have recently become extinct?


  • ... that the Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca was written by Henry Suter (pictured) who was from Switzerland?
  • ... that the 18th century Central European naturalist Ignaz von Born (pictured) described numerous marine gastropods?
  • ...that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (pictured) had a wide range of interests: he also described a few species of marine gastropods?

2008

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2007

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2006

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