High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands by Lucie Vélová, Adam Véle, Alena Peltanová, Lenka Šafářová, Rosa Menendéz, Jakub Horák

“…Birds were the most species‐rich taxon followed by butterflies. Land snails had species‐poor grassland communities. …”
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Observations on the biology of Postharmostomum ntowi Hodasi, 1967 (Trematoda: Brachylaimidae) based on intermediate and definitive hosts found in Nigeria by Alari E. O., Ugbomeh A. P., Awharitoma A. O., Enabulele E. E., Aisien M.S.O.

“…Following the recovery of the metacercariae of a brachylaimid trematode from the rectum of the frog Amnirana galamensis from Ase in Delta State, Nigeria, we investigated the land snails in the locality to establish their roles in the life cycle of the parasite. …”
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Soil manganese enrichment from industrial inputs: a gastropod perspective. by Despina-Maria Bordean, Dragos V Nica, Monica Harmanescu, Ionut Banatean-Dunea, Iosif I Gergen

“…The link between soil manganese and land snails has never been made although these invertebrates routinely come in contact with the upper soil horizons through cutaneous contact, egg-laying, and feeding activities in soil. …”
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Comments on snails of the genus Zoniferella from Ecuador (Mollusca: Achatinidae) by Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Roberto F. Valencia

“…The genus Zoniferella includes six taxa of land snails from Colombia and Ecuador, for which little has been published beyond their original descriptions. …”
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Handbook of Entomology / by Packard, Zoey, author 648650

“…Although technically incorrect, the definition is sometimes widened to include the study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups or other phyla, such as arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, land snails, and slugs. Like several of the other fields that are categorized within zoology, entomology is a taxon-based category, any form of scientific study in which there is a focus on insect related inquiries is, by definition, entomology. …”
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Moluscos terrestres de las elevaciones cársticas de Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba by Wilfredo Oliva-Olivera, Raimundo Real

“…The land snails inhabiting the limestone highlands in Cuba are poorly known. …”
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Timing of Passage Development and Sedimentation at Cave of the Winds, Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA by Fred G. Luiszer

“…The amino acid rations of land snails located in nearby radiometrically dated alluvial terraces and an alluvial terrace geomorphically associated with Cave of the Winds were used to construct an aminostratigraphic record. …”
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full on riot by Moses Iten

“…What follows is a journey through the landscape of a Gunavidji, whose brothers have all gone to the land of the dead; metallic scraping in the glass cases of the Hobart Museum; a Palestinian woman giving up on her people; land-snails exposing cultural inaccuracies; photographing Australia’s war zone; entering the St Peter’s Basilica of Rome with bulldozers - all in the name of preparing to interview prominent Israeli writer Etgar Keret.…”
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Composition of parasite fauna of sheep contained within limited territories in the foothill zones of Armenia by S. O. Movsessyаn, G. A. Boyakhchyan, F. A. Chubaryan, R. A. Petrosyan, L. D. Arutyunova, M. A. Nikogosyan

“…An analysis of paths of circulation of larvae of some biohelminthes, particularly Dicrocoelidae and Protostrongylidae, realized through invertebrate intermediate hosts (land snails) have shown that mean infection of the latter varied from 2,5 to 8,0 %.…”
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Beyond the last glacial maximum: island endemism is best explained by long-lasting archipelago configurations by Norder, S, Proios, K, Whittaker, R, Alonso, M, Borges, P, Borregaard, M, Cowie, R, Florens, F, de Frias Martins, A, Ibáñez, M, Kissling, W, de Nascimento, L, Otto, R, Parent, C, Rigal, F, Warren, B, Fernández-Palacios, J, van Loon, E, Triantis, K, Rijsdijk, K

“…<strong>Major taxa studied:</strong> Land snails and angiosperms. <strong>Methods:</strong> Species richness data for land snails and angiosperms were compiled from existing literature and species checklists. …”

Leaf-litter-dwelling microsnails of Prince Edward Island, Canada (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Eupulmonata) by Robert G. Forsyth, Mark A. Arsenault, Rosemary Curley

“…Eighty-two specimens belonging to 15 species of litter-dwelling land snails were recovered from 20 of the 22 samples. …”
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A new discovery of the bioluminescent terrestrial snail genus Phuphania (Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) by Arthit Pholyotha, Daichi Yano, Gaku Mizuno, Chirasak Sutcharit, Piyoros Tongkerd, Yuichi Oba, Somsak Panha

“…Here, we document the new discovery of bioluminescence in four land snails, namely Phuphania crossei, P. globosa, P. carinata, and P. costata. …”
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Antifungal Activity of Soft Tissue Extract from the Garden Snail <i>Helix aspersa</i> (Gastropoda, Mollusca) by Hoda H. Abd-El Azeem, Gamalat Y. Osman, Hesham R. El-Seedi, Ahmed M. Fallatah, Shaden A. M. Khalifa, Mohamed M. Gharib

“…Gastropods comprise approximately 80% of molluscans, of which land snails are used variably as food and traditional medicines due to their high protein content. …”
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Structure-behaviour correlations between two genetically closely related snail species by Le Ferrand, Hortense, Morii, Yuta

“…Predator-prey interactions are among environmental pressures that can lead to speciation, but it remains unclear how this pressure can be related to the material structure and performance. Recently, two land snails, Karaftohelix editha and Karaftohelix gainesi, were found to exhibit divergent phenotypes and responses to predation despite sharing the same habitat and most of their genome. …”
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The use of the terrestrial snails of the genera Megalobulimus and Thaumastus as representatives of the atmospheric carbon reservoir by Macario, K, Alves, E, Carvalho, C, Oliveira, F, Ramsey, C, Chivall, D, Souza, R, Simone, L, Cavallari, D

“…In Brazilian archaeological shellmounds, many species of land snails are found abundantly distributed throughout the occupational layers, forming a contextualized set of samples within the sites and offering a potential alternative to the use of charcoal for radiocarbon dating analyses. …”

The use of the terrestrial snails of the genera Megalobulimus and Thaumastus as representatives of the atmospheric carbon reservoir by Macario, K, Alves, E, Carvalho, C, Oliveira, F, Ramsey, C, Chivall, D, Souza, R, Simone, L, Cavallari, D

“…In Brazilian archaeological shellmounds, many species of land snails are found abundantly distributed throughout the occupational layers, forming a contextualized set of samples within the sites and offering a potential alternative to the use of charcoal for radiocarbon dating analyses. …”

Redescription and geographical distribution of Leiostracus obliquus (Reeve, 1849) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Simpulopsidae) by Maria Isabel P. F. Macedo, Ximena M. C. Ovando, Sthefane D’ávila

“…Leiostracus Albers, 1850 was established to allocate land snails from Central America and Northern South America. …”
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Identification problems of travelling snail species—new exotic introductions to tropical greenhouses in Gothenburg, Sweden (Gastropoda: Achatinellidae, Strobilopsidae, Helicarionid... by Ira Richling, Ted von Proschwitz

“…Three previously unreported species of tropical land snails were found in the greenhouses of the Gothenburg (Göteborg) Botanical Garden and the Public Science Center Universeum in Gothenburg. …”
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Prey handling and feeding habits of the snail predator Licinus depressus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) by Bruno Baur, José D. Gilgado, Armin Coray

“…Carabid beetles of the tribe Licinini use their asymmetric mandibles to open the shells of land snails. Prey handling of large snails has been described in a few Licinini species. …”
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Asymmetry of mandibular dentition is associated with dietary specialization in snail-eating snakes by Masaki Hoso

“…A remarkable exception is snail-eating snakes in the family Pareidae: almost all the pareid snakes have much more teeth on the right mandible than on the left for functional specialization in feeding on the dextral majority of land snails. Because the only exceptional species with symmetric dentition has been regarded as a slug-eater, the extent of dietary specialization on slugs could shape the degree of the lateral asymmetry of mandibular dentition (dentition asymmetry) even among snail eaters. …”
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