BACKGROUND The land snail, Theba pisana, is one of the most important threats facing
agriculture around the globe. Boric acid (BOA) is currently used as a safe alternative …

The water snail (Pomacea canaliculata) features both broad dietary scope and high feeding
rate, possibly making it one of the most successful mollusc invaders globally. The water snail …

Invertebrates show great diversity in their responses to neural damage. Numerous
invertebrate phyla, including gastropods, can replace all or a portion of their nervous …

The rhipidoglossan radula, consisting of numerous teeth in each transverse row, is
characteristic of phylogenetically distant groups of gastropods, including Vetigastropoda …

Gastropods are one of the most important groups of organisms adapted to chemosynthesis-
based communities. A list of gastropod occurrences in ancient hydrocarbon seeps is …

Land snails exhibit an extraordinary variety of shell shapes. The way shells are constructed
underlies biological and mechanical constraints that vary across gastropod clades. Here, we …

Abalone pearl farming is an aquaculture activity with great potential for future growth and
diversification of the global pearl sector, which has been dominated for decades by pearls of …

Genetic and morphological data have suggested a Gondwanan connection between the
three non-marine aquatic gastropod genera Coxiella Smith, 1894, Tomichia Benson, 1851 …

Snails are fascinating molluscs with unique morphological and physiological adaptive
features to cope with various environments. They have traditionally been utilized as food …

The molluscan class Gastropoda includes over 5,000 parasitic species whose evolutionary
origins remain poorly understood. Marine snails of the genus Caledoniella (Caledoniellidae) …