#radula — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #radula, aggregated by home.social.
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Radula of Whelk (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature through Microscope & Camera.
Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd3038fb-3097-49cc-8712-7f836eb369e1
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Team finds 9 new species of tiny, meat-eating snails https://www.futurity.org/new-snail-species-biodiversity-3135462/
Overlooked #PredatorySnails from #PapuaNewGuinea: nine new Torresiropa (#Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Rhytididae) https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/archmoll/detail/152/103560/Overlooked_predatory_snails_from_Papua_New_Guinea_?af=crossref
"These #NewSpecies of #snails were found in areas that still have #NativeVegetation and still appear to be doing well, but they could easily become endangered if things change... All 9 species have dagger-shaped teeth on their #radula, which is characteristic of predatory snails"