Directory of Pulmonata Resources

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The pulmonates are nearly all land-living gastropods and include about 15,000 species of slugs and snails. They have eyes on the tips of retractible, sensory stalks. Their mantle cavity forms a lung with a contractile opening. They are hermaphrodites and most have coiled shells but various groups have lost these.

Resources in This Category

• Achatina fulica

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatina_fulica
  Article from Wikipedia on the giant African land snail.

• Achatina fulica

  http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=64&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN
  Information from the Global Invasive Species Database on this threat to the sustainability of crop systems and native ecosystems.

• Achatina fulica

  http://www.petsnails.co.uk/species/achatina_fulica.html
  East African land snail. Identification profile, feeding, natural environment, taxonomy, care and breeding.

• Aldabra Banded Snail: Rachistia aldabra

  http://www.arkive.org/aldabra-banded-snail/rachistia-aldabra/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Ariolimax columbianus: Spotted Banana Slug

  http://www.walnet.org/stanley_woods/slugz/bananaslug.html
  Photograph and information on the largest North American slug.

• Bithynia tentaculata

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/schmidt_ama3/
  Student project on this freshwater snail including classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Brown Garden Snail

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Brown_Garden_Snail
  Photographs of Cornu aspersum, description, life history and habits.

• Caterpillar Slug: Laevicaulis haroldi

  http://www.arkive.org/caterpillar-slug/laevicaulis-haroldi/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Common Garden Slug: Arion distinctus

  http://www.arkive.org/common-garden-slug/arion-distinctus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Disc Cannibal Snail: Haplotrema concavum

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/disc_cannibal_snail.htm
  Photographs and information on this large carnivorous snail.

• Dlinza Pinwheel: Trachycystis clifdeni

  http://www.arkive.org/dlinza-pinwheel/trachycystis-clifdeni/
  Photograph and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Eastern Forest Snail: Anguispira alternata

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/eastern_forest_snail.htm
  Photographs and information on this organism.

• Freshwater Shells

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep99/hnshell3.html
  Images of a number of species of gastropod found by Helmut Nisters in Austrian lakes and streams.

• Freshwater Snails of Florida

  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/MALACOLOGY/fl-snail/SNAILS1.htm
  Identification manual and field guide.

• Galapagos Land Snail: Bulimulus akamatus

  http://www.arkive.org/galapagos-land-snail/bulimulus-akamatus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Galba truncatula

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba_truncatula
  Information from Wikipedia on this freshwater snail which is the intermediate host of several flukes which cause diseases such as fascioliasis.

• Garden Snail: Helix aspersa

  http://www.arkive.org/garden-snail/helix-aspersa/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Geyer's Whorl Snail: Vertigo geyeri

  http://www.arkive.org/geyers-whorl-snail/vertigo-geyeri/
  Information from ARKive on this rare European species.

• Giant African Snail: Achatina fulica

  http://www.arkive.org/giant-african-snail/achatina-fulica/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, facts and status.

• Glutinous Snail: Myxas glutinosa

  http://www.arkive.org/glutinous-snail/myxas-glutinosa/
  Information from ARKive on this rare European freshwater species.

• Great Pond Snail: Lymnaea stagnalis

  http://www.arkive.org/great-pond-snail/lymnaea-stagnalis/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Helix aspersa: Brown Garden Snail

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/brown_garden_snail.htm
  Photographs and a description of this mollusk, and information on its distribution, life history, hosts and economic importance.

• Leopard Slug: Limax maximus

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/leopard_slug.htm
  Photographs and information on this slug.

• Microscopic Structure of a Slug's Foot and Slime Secretion

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov01/slug.html
  Article by M. Halit Umar with many photomicrographs.

• Mollus.ca

  http://www.mollus.ca/
  Robert Forsyth provides a checklist, photograph gallery and bibliography of the terrestrial pulmonata of British Columbia, Canada. Includes information on exotic snails and slugs.

• Pomacea spp: Applesnails of Florida

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/apple_snails.htm
  Information on these snails which live permanently in trees and their identification, with an illustrated key.

• Predatory Snails of Florida

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/snail_eating_snails.htm
  Information and photographs of these snails that eat other snails, Euglandina rosea, Rumina decollata, Haplotrema concavum, Gulella bicolor and Varicella gracillima floridana.

• Pulmonata

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonata
  Information from Wikipedia on these univalve snails that breathe air, and their classification.

• Ramshorn Snail: Helisoma trivolvis

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/goodman_aman/
  Student project with classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Siphonaria pectinata: Striped Falselimpet

  http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Siphonaria_pectinata.htm
  Photographs and information on this air-breathing marine species, including its taxonomy, description, habitat, distribution, life history, population biology, physical tolerances, community ecology and invasion information.

• Stagnant Pond Snail: Lymnaea stagnalis

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/stagnant_pond_snail.htm
  Photographs and information on this snail.

• The Development of Physella, a Freshwater Snail

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug07/wd-physella1.html
  Photographic study by Walter Dioni on the reproduction of this species.

• Theba pisana: White Garden Snail

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/white_garden_snail.htm
  Photographs and information on this species, its distribution, identification, biology and management.

• Tree Snails of Florida

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/tree_snails.htm
  Information on a number of snails which live permanently in trees and their identification, with an illustrated key.

• Trumpet-mouthed Hunter Snail: Gulella salpinx

  http://www.arkive.org/trumpet-mouthed-hunter-snail/gulella-salpinx/
  Photograph and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• White-lipped Banded Snail: Cepaea hortensis

  http://www.arkive.org/white-lipped-banded-snail/cepaea-hortensis/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

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