Mollusks

Trumpeter is the common name for various species of marine gastropods. Despite the fact that the number of species is relatively large, and they belong to the buccinidae family, the term "trumpeter" is sometimes applied to other sea snails within several families. Description and features The trumpeter family includes several of the largest gastropods, the length of which can reach 260 mm, and smaller species, not exceeding 30 mm.

Description and features Coil snails are creatures that are very common in nature and belong to the type of freshwater mollusks. Their organisms are uncomplicated. The most noticeable and massive part of them, comprising 90% of body weight, is a translucent shell. By color, it is brown, red, pink or other similar shades.

Description and features There is an opinion that the necessary condition for the existence of any organisms in the natural environment is an everyday and irreconcilable struggle. And sometimes it seems logical, even obvious. Indeed, in order to survive, members of the natural fauna have to conquer a warm place under the sun, in addition to get food and at the same time manage not to become food for others who are hungry.

In the shallow sea of ​​subtropics, you can see small mollusk shells, from which antennas stick out and the legs of the house inhabitant are visible. Hermit crab along with the dwelling moves along the sand, leaving traces on long paths. A cautious creature does not leave the shelter; when trying to examine it, it hides in the depths of the shell.

The gastropod clam has long lived in the vast territory of Europe. From ancient times, the mainland was inhabited by grape snails, first from the southeast, the central part. Today, they are not accessible only to the northern latitudes. The largest mollusks on the mainland were considered agricultural pests, and were actively used in cooking.

Of all the pets we live with, we would like to single out one. Quiet and calm, not in a hurry, measured - African snail. Features and habitat of the African snail The homeland of the snail is Africa, hence its name. But Achatina lives not only there. Since it is a heat-loving mollusk, accordingly, it settles where it is warm, light and humid.

How many more animals, fish, mollusks, crayfish and crabs unknown to us hitherto unknown in the sea. They can be explored and described for an infinite amount of time. Scientists oceanologists do not cease to be surprised at their new discoveries. Some inhabitants live right before our eyes, even under our feet.

How rich and underwater the kingdom is not completely explored. Its unforgettable, chic water open spaces. With millions of different algae growing like fabulous, marine botanical gardens. Such a likeness on land will never be seen. An incredible combination in size, colors, as if Neptune himself cares for them.

In our busy life, not often, but they happen - weekends. When you want to ignore everything, turn on the TV. And see something relaxing, such as a channel about wildlife, the water world. We discover the underwater kingdom full of mysteries, secrets and legends. Here's a shark swimming past a sunken ship.

This mollusk has two common names: guidac and panopea. The first came from the Niskuali Indians and means "dig deeper." The second name was formed from the Latin system name of the mollusk - Panopea. Guidak has an extraordinary appearance. The Chinese are comparing it to the trunk of an elephant. In the population of southeast Asia, panopea is associated only with food.

Description and features Mollusks are so diverse that in numbers these animals occupy second place in the world, second only to arthropods. All three classes of these invertebrates share common features, for example, their body most often consists of three layers, while the body itself envelops the skin “veil” called the mantle.

Description and features Bivalves were named in honor of their addition. These aquatic inhabitants were nicknamed as early as the 18th century. All with the light hand of the Swedish naturalist Karl Linnaeus. But there are alternatives. For example, “headless”, which also reflects the appearance of these sedentary creatures.

Description and features The first thing to mention when discussing the class of gastropods is their variety. Almost a hundred thousand different species. There are so many of them that these invertebrates live in salty sea waters, having fallen in love with both solid depths and shallow water, and in fresh rivers, lakes, and even on land, and you can meet them not only in green thickets, but also in deserts and the rocks.

Black cuttlefish - an amazing inhabitant of the ocean depths, excites the imagination of people for many centuries. For example, the legendary image of a sea devil or sea monk, about which the sailors composed terrible tales and which scared young recruits, is just a ten-tentacle black cuttlefish.

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Scientific mysticism. In the kitchen of Japan there is a dish "Dancing squid." The clam is placed in a bowl of rice and watered with soy sauce. The killed animal begins to move. Mystic? Not. The sauce contains sodium. The squid's nerve fibers react to it, contracting. Interaction is possible for several hours after the mollusk is caught from the sea.

Snails have long ceased to be exotic pets. Domestic African snails are very unpretentious, quickly get used to the owner, and also do not require special care. Achatina are the most popular among domestic mollusks. Features and habitat of the African snail The giant African snail belongs to the gastropods to a subclass of pulmonary snails.

Features and habitat of the trumpeter Virtually any beautiful, spiral-shaped shell found on the coast resembles the shell of a trumpeter mollusk. Although shellfish, similar to a trumpeter, a huge number. Mollusk trumpeter For example, the same rapan (rapana), often found in the Black Sea and so familiar to all vacationers, is very similar to it.

Features and habitat of oysters Oysters belong to the class of marine bivalve mollusks. In the modern world, there are 50 species of these underwater inhabitants. People use them to create jewelry, exquisite culinary masterpieces from time immemorial. To improve the taste of oysters, producers often place them in clean seawater with special algae.

Features and habitat The body of the snail zebra mussel is located inside a reliable strong shell, which protects it from adverse external influences. The sink itself consists of two identical leaves, like any other bivalve. The "house" of the mollusk in adulthood reaches 4-5 centimeters in length with a width of 3 centimeters.

Uninvited guest of the aquarium - snail reel. There are many proverbs and sayings about uninvited guests. Their appearance usually does not bring joy and confuses educated owners. It turns out that even an uninvited guest can settle in the aquarium. Most often, they turn out to be such a clam as a snail coil.

Features and habitat The Helena snail in the photo and in life differs significantly from other mollusks due to its unusual color and highly pronounced wavy conical shape of the shell. However, the unique appearance is not the only feature of this species. Helena is a predator that eats other small snails with pleasure.

All lovers of the aquatic world are well acquainted with its mysterious inhabitants of variegated color. Snail ampoule, with all its originality and beauty, is still very useful. Her homeland is South America. It was there that she was first seen in the waters of the Amazon. Aquarium snails ampullariums came to Europe relatively recently, at the beginning of the 20th century.

Features and habitat The snail melania spends almost all the time in the thickness of the soil. In the natural habitat of these mollusks can be found in the waters of Africa, Australia and Asia. Melania has an extremely skilled talent for adapting to changing environmental conditions, however, if she has a choice, she will prefer to live in coastal still waters or in waters with a weak current.

Features and habitat of the snail Achatina snail Achatina is now extremely widespread as a pet. This is due to the simplicity of maintenance, ease of care and, of course, the unusual appearance of this, as yet, exotic pet. In addition, Achatina is bred for gastronomic purposes, since the meat of snails is edible and, with due skill of the cook, very tasty.

Who lives at the bottom of the ocean, or features of the infernal vampire This mollusk lives at a depth where there is practically no oxygen. Not warm red blood flows in his body, but blue. Perhaps that is why, at the beginning of the 20th century, zoologists decided that he looked like something evil, and called the invertebrate - a hellish vampire.

Features and habitat Octopuses are benthic animals, represent the appearance of cephalopods, are found exclusively in the water column, most often at great depths. He will be discussed today. In the photo, the octopus may look shapeless due to the rather soft short body of an irregular oval shape and the complete absence of bones in the body.

The snail has been known since ancient times. The ancient Roman scholar Pliny the Elder in his writings reported on the breeding of grape snails by compatriots to feed the poorest classes. Specialized farms are still being created in a modern way, but the taste of shellfish is now more familiar to gourmets.

Cuttlefish squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) or oval squid belongs to the cephalopod class, a type of mollusk. Distribution of cuttlefish squid Cuttlefish squid is found in the Indo-Western Pacific Ocean. It lives in the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean in the Red Sea.

Firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans) or sparkling squid belongs to the cephalopod class, a type of mollusk. It got its specific name by the name of the Japanese zoologist Watase, who first observed the glow of squid on the night of May 27-28, 1905. Firefly squid spread. Firefly squid spreads in the Pacific Ocean in the northwest.

Japanese dwarf squid (Idiosepius paradoxus) belongs to the cephalopod class, a type of mollusk. Spread Japanese dwarf squid. Japanese dwarf squid is distributed in the western Pacific Ocean, in the waters of Japan, South Korea and Northern Australia. It is found near Indonesia, as well as in the Pacific Ocean from South Africa to Japan and South Australia.

Porcelain mollusk (Hippopus porcellanus) belongs to the type of mollusk, it also has the name porcelain boat or mollusk - horse hoof. Habitats of a porcelain clam. Porcelain clam is commonly found in coral reefs. It lives in places with a sandy or slightly silty bottom, overgrown with aquatic plants, or on coral debris and gravel substrate.

Grimp's octopus (Grimpoteuthis albatrossi) belongs to the cephalopod class, a type of mollusk. This deep-sea inhabitant of the seas received its first description in 1906, it was made by the Japanese explorer Sasaki. He studied several specimens captured in the Bering and Okhotsk seas. And also off the east coast of Japan during the expedition on the ship “Albatross” and made a detailed description of this species.

Achatina are snails that differ not only in impressive size, but also in smartness, in comparison with other gastropods. Akhatins are able to recognize their master and communicate with him. They are unpretentious in content and eat almost everything. Owners of Achatina call them touching, gentle and charming creatures.

Giant octopuses belong to the genus Enteroctopus, which in turn is part of the Octopodidae family. Included in the class of cephalopods. The appearance of the giant octopus The giant octopus got its name for a reason. As you might guess, these are very large octopuses, the weight of which can reach up to thirty kilograms.

Those who have long wanted to have some exotic pet, but did not want to spend a lot of time, money and just energy on caring for it, should think about such an animal as a snail. Perhaps, it is impossible to find a more uncomplicated pet than this gastropod. These mollusks are supposedly created in order to give their owners joy without requiring almost any effort from them.

When people bring themselves such exotic pets as snails, they, as a rule, don’t even know what their pets are like, or how their body’s devices are not imagined. However, in order to correctly understand the needs of the cochlea, to understand its life and be able to organize the most comfortable living conditions for it, such knowledge is simply necessary.

At first glance, it may seem that snail breeding is not a difficult task. However, you need to approach it in all seriousness. Each stage of the appearance of small snails will have its own nuances and tricks. And all these nuances should be taken into account if the owner of snails wants the next generation of his gastropods to be healthy and full.

Snails have been on the pet list for quite some time. And with each new day, these seemingly phlegmatic, but equally beautiful creations are becoming increasingly popular. However, what really distinguishes these gastropods from other pets is their amazing unpretentiousness and undemanding nature of nutrition.

Is it true that there are sea slugs that look like rabbits? Where do these creatures live and what kind of animals do they belong to? Usually, when it comes to slugs, an image of an unpleasant creature appears immediately, which has a jelly-like body completely covered with sticky mucus. But not all slugs are such and the first to understand this were the originals of the Japanese.

Is it true that mollusc cones are poisonous and very dangerous? How to recognize cones? This will help photos of mollusks, as well as a detailed description of the cones, which you will find in our article. How are clam cones different from their relatives, where do they live and how do they eat? Today in the underwater kingdom there are more than 550 species of cones, but this is not the limit, because every year scientists find more and more new species.

About slugs, the average person’s view is rather boring, but are slugs so simple? Description slugs will tell us about the appearance, lifestyle and habitat of creatures. With the word "slug" everyone immediately has negative emotions. Whom do we imagine? A slimy, shapeless creature, nasty to the touch, always creeping somewhere ... but do we really think that nature is so stupid that it created a useless animal, unsuitable for anything?

Snails are found in almost every aquarium. Some snails settle in the aquarium themselves, while others get it on purpose, and they become real favorites of aquarists. Do snails benefit? They bring, but not all kinds. Acrolux The smallest representatives of aquarium snails are acrolux.

Rapan is a large and very beautiful snail living in the Black Sea. You can buy its sink inexpensively in any resort town or even find it yourself on the seashore, bring it home as a souvenir of your vacation or give it to friends as a souvenir. Usually, Rapan is associated precisely with the Black Sea. Meanwhile, few know that this mollusk is a long-time resident of the seas of the Far East, and appeared on the Black Sea a little more than 60 years ago.

Coils are gastropods, whose habitat is freshwater. Coils, as well as pond boats live in fresh water, but have differences in structure and lifestyle. Shellfish structure Coil (Planorbidae). The shell at the coils has a disc-shaped shape, all curls are in the same plane, while they are not raised above the mouth.

The common octopus, also called the octopus, is typical, and also the largest representative of the family. The body weight of large individuals reaches 50 kilograms, while the length of each tentacle is on average 2 meters, that is, the sweep of the tentacles reaches 4 meters. Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris).

Maybe it is not in vain that they say that “the devils stir up water”? Ah, what does a monkfish look like? You know - but not at all scary! The Devil Is Angel Food? If you look at our earthly fauna, you can see that our nature is a big dreamer! I must say that researchers are not far behind nature, coming up with unimaginable names for some animals.

It turns out that the battle of good and evil is taking place not only on earth, but also among the dark deep waters of the ocean. Do not believe? Do you know the name mollusk sea angel and monkfish? These are deep-sea mollusks (although there is a fish - a monkfish, but now we are talking about mollusks with the same name). In the underwater kingdom, angels always defeat the devils, or rather, eat them.

Who is sea cuttlefish? Having heard this question, an image of some formless and incomprehensible animal immediately arises in front of my eyes. Although, perhaps, knowledgeable people would not talk like that about cuttlefish, after all, these animals can be incredibly beautiful, but they cannot be called shapeless at all. Cuttlefish belong to the class of cephalopods.

Sometimes, observing the creations of nature, you begin to think that some of them seem to have arrived from a completely different planet - they have such an unusual appearance, shape and behavior. But do not forget that the nature of our planet is not deprived of fantasy and could very well create something bizarre and unusual!

Perhaps the most familiar representatives of cephalopods are the sea octopus. These animals simply amaze with a variety of their sizes: from the smallest to truly gigantic! Giant octopus (Octopus dofleini) The structure of the body of the octopus. The basis of the body of the octopus is the mantle, with the help of which the mollusk moves (by a sharp discharge of water from the cavity of the mantle).

There are many interesting things in the deep sea. The most unusual are the phosphorescent inhabitants of the deep sea. Squid, an animal is one of the few endowed with this ability. Squid sepioteutis southern (Sepioteuthis australis) The underwater world is a mysterious environment, which until now has not been fully explored.

Mollusks are inhabitants of the most diverse in size and composition of water bodies: they can be found both in the salt sea, and in a fresh lake, and in a river and in a pond. Among other aquatic inhabitants, it is very often possible to observe a mollusk called river zebra mussel. This animal belongs to the class of bivalves and represents the family of Dreissenides.

The animal "Marine tooth" lives in the shallow waters of the seas and oceans. This small clam carries a unique shell, which gave it such a remarkable name. Among the underwater inhabitants of the seas and oceans there are mysterious animals that have a unique structure and lead a very modest, inconspicuous lifestyle.

Freshwater bodies of water are rich in quite diverse fauna. Whoever you can’t meet here! The snail reel, a photo, the description of which you will find here, is one of the many representatives of the aquatic fauna. Everything flows in rivers, lakes and ponds - from huge fish to the microscopic size of animals. Perhaps, mollusks can be called one of the most frequent inhabitants of fresh waters.