Their common name the “Cuban land snail” or the “painted snail”, is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
The shell of this species is large, brightly colored, and has numerous color varieties.
This species is the type species of the genus Polymita.
TheChelidonura hirundinina is not a nudibranch - still, this colourful headshield slug can grow up to 4 cm long, and lives in the western Indo-Pacific. See the little hairs around the edge of its head (closest to the camera)? Those are cilia, and are used as sensors to detect their prey: flatworms. This species is also known as the Swallowtail Headshield slug, because of its split back end.
Bivalves put a lot of energy into their shells. These hardened, hinged sheaths of carbonate are an effective defense against many predators looking to get at the squishy clam’s body encased inside. Parasitic pea crabs have evolved to free-ride on the bivalves’ hard work.
Littoraria grazing on Spartina marsh grass. (source)
Us humans really like to talk up our skills at farming. And while it’s true that we have domesticated animals and plants to a degree not seen in other life forms, the act of nurturing and harvesting food is actually not really that special, and is broadly observed throughout the animal kingdom. Perhaps the most iconic invertebrate farmers are…
Does necromancy only work on animals? What do you do if you accidentally necromancy a fence and then it starts growing branches?
WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU NECROMANCY A BOTTLE OF SHAMPOO AND IT TURNS INTO AN ENTIRE PILE OF LIMES?
What if I accidentally necromancy a vaccine and then someone gets an armful of very live pathogen?
WHAT’S THE LIMIT ON DEADNESS? HOW RECENTLY DOES SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DEAD? COULD I NECROMANCY A DINOSAUR FOSSIL? WHAT IF I NECROMANCIED THE GROUND AND THEN DINOSAURS STARTED APPEARING?
WHAT IF I NECROMANCIED A LIMESTONE WALL AND IT JUST TURNED INTO A PILE OF MOLLUSCS? WHAT IF I MOLLUSCED A BUILDING? A MOUNTAIN?
Hey OP are you okay
no
OP is a necromancer having an existential crisis of the unforseen consequences of their powers
The word firshb designates an animal from this universe. It looks like a mix between a fish and a bird and is comparable to our pigeons.
Snail Man is a slice-of-life about Edgar Neil Snailman, a snail who has to hide his carnivorous nature. However, everything gets more difficult when he became the hero of his district by saving a cuttlefish from a gang.
Here are the Anchors! The team of big meanies in my story: Snail Man!
I don’t know their name yet-
Nautilus: (She/Her), she’s kinda the “leader figure” of the group. She reckons the work to do and usual plans it.
Great Scallop: (They/Them), the most energic of the team. They thinks fast (and get pissed fast too).
Starfish: (They/Them), the strongest of the group who doesn’t hesitate to hit. They seems grumpy all the time. However, they enjoys annoying the Scallop.
Squid: (He/Him), the most discreet of the team. He’s lacking a bit of confidence while working but he still likes the team!
This group also has a boss, but I won’t detail that.
Some doodles of Snail Man (and their crush) and an attempt to draw their (cursed) gijinka.
For more details about Edgar Neil Snail Man: He hates salad.
The joke is that a lot of people comes offering him vegetables but he just cannot eat those. Because Snail Man is not a “regular” snail, he’s a carnivore one.
At least, those plants will fit nicely in his garden!
“I was asked to illustrate a spread of fossils and reconstructed animals from what the Baltic Sea was like in the Ordovician. They asked for colourful animals, and that’s what they got.
In the Ordovician, what is now Northern and Eastern Europe formed a small continent called Baltica, at the time located well south of the Equator. Much of the continent was covered in shallow seas, and there was a rich biodiversity of marine animals. Some of them have been preserved as fossils in Estonia, Åland islands and other places.
Made for Sieppo, a children’s magazine published by The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation.”
The venom of some species of cone snail (Conus spp) is made up of over a hundred unique toxins that target ion channels and can result in the rapid paralysis of prey.
This deadly cocktail is delivered via a harpoon(the second image) concealed in the snail’s proboscis (the long, finger-like thing you see in the clip above).
Human envenomation can result in severe pain, discoloration of the affected area, swelling, and numbness. Nausea, muscle weakness, blurred vision, and paralysis may also occur.
Severe cases can result in respiratory failure, cardiovascular collapse, and death within two hours.
As with its fellow mollusk, the blue-ringed octopus, first aid for cone snail envenomation involves pressure immobilization on the affected area. Further treatment is supportive, since no anti-venom for cone snail venom exists.
One Sunday night, I decide to indulge in some white wine sauce with mussels (how else is one supposed to cope with being a plebe who has to be somewhere on Monday?). After I eat a bevy of these mussels, I go into the bathroom to relieve myself (saying “piss” or “pee” sounds too colloquial for my taste). The way in which I squat allows me to look squarely at my labia, which is so disgustingly similar to mussels that I almost want to retch. There they are: the same folds, the same alien-like aesthetic, the same membraneous look. I can’t stop staring at it and flashing back to all the, for all intents and purposes, labias I just ate. And yes, I know labia is the plural of labium, but labias just sounds better to me, alright?
I have to ask myself how I manage to continue eating such foul sea fare when all I think about every time I bite into one is the incredible resemblance it bears to my vagina. Why do I keep coming back for more if this is the only association I make with it? Am I an undercover lesbian? Do I secretly want to eat pussy? I have no idea. All I know is, I shouldn’t want to keep eating mussels, because they look utterly repugnant. Everything about them is so overtly sexual. The way you cook them and the shell just opens, like a goddamn pair of legs.
Yes, to be sure, eating mussels is an obscene act. One that should be done alone and in embarrassment. It’s like you’re some sort of fetishist who gets your jollies from consuming only those culinary delights that specifically resemble genitalia. I carry my secret shame with me. I feel like everyone else knows that mussels look like labias, but no one wants to call it out because it would ruin their appetite for this particular seafood for life. And that’s another thing. Mussels are from the ocean, adding to their vaginal comparisons in terms of odor. Yet, in spite of all these obvious connections, everyone seems to be perfectly at ease with taking a voracious bite from a sauce-laden bowl of mollusks. Well, I won’t be silent anymore: labias and mussels are the same thing. And I’ll be damned if I try to deny it any longer. But, of course, I won’t stop eating them. Like the pussy, they’re just too good.
Life cycle stages of diverse planktonic organisms and a couple other animals that also undergo metamorphosis for comparison. Scanned from Heather L. Montgomery’s charming Little Monsters of the Ocean: Metamorphosis under the Waves.
Blaesospira is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae. This is a land snail species endemic to Cuba.
I’m not saying Barack Hussein Obama is responsible for this, and I’m not even necessarily saying it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault, but I do think this is something Congress needs to look into, because it’s obviously not a coincidence.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a sea slug! The spanish dancer nudibranch brings a new level of excitement to diving with slugs. Where most nudis amble slowly over their environment, the spanish dancer can actively swim by twisting its body and pumping water with its large, flowing “skirt.” The fluffy tuft on its back end are actually gills, and give the nudibranch its name - nudi meaning naked, and branch meaning gills! Found at @reefdivers on Instagram.
Littoraria grazing on Spartina marsh grass. (source)
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