Anagrams & Information About | English word SNAIL'S

Examples of Using SNAIL'S in a Sentence

• They hunt and immobilize prey using a modified radular tooth along with a venom gland containing neurotoxins; the tooth is launched out of the snail's mouth in a harpoon-like action.
• Manus Island is home to the emerald green snail, whose shells were harvested to be sold as jewellery; this continues, albeit at a lesser scale, as due to the snail's status as a threatened species, its sale for this purpose is now illegal in many jurisdictions.
• Several dozen enthusiasts of this HBO series braved chilly weather to witness the snail's pace of television filming and grab autographs and photos with celebrities.
• Apple snails use the siphon in a way that is reminiscent of a human swimmer using a snorkel, except that the apple snail's siphon can be retracted completely, or extended to various lengths as needed.
• The snail's quiescent periods during heat and drought are known as aestivation; its quiescence during winter is known as overwintering.
• An adult snail may be expected to have 7-9 whorls, but this is not necessarily a reliable indicator of age; nor is the width of the snail's peristome (the shell's lip at the aperture or opening of the shell), which was traditionally used to measure age, as it varies as well.
• The radula tooth is hollow and barbed, and is attached to the tip of the radula in the radular sac, inside the snail's throat.
• Eggs ingested by the snail hatch into miracidia, which develop in the snail's hepatopancreas into the next stage, a sporocyst.
• The rosy wolfsnail is specialized for carnivory, its buccal mass being totally contained within a beak-like rostrum that can be extended, thus allowing the toothed radula to be ejected past the mouth and into the snail's prey.
• The curtailment of habitat and range for this (and few other snail species) species in the Mobile Basin's larger rivers (Coosa River for lacy elimia) is primarily due to extensive construction of dams, and the subsequent inundation of the snail's shoal habitats by the impounded waters.
• A Japanese lymnaeid exhibits a very similar reduced shell shape, but a study of chromosome numbers suggests that Newcomb's snail's evolutionary ties lie with the rest of the Hawaiian lymnaeids, all of which are derived from North American ancestors.
• The curtailment of habitat and range for this (and few other snail species) species in the Mobile Basin's larger rivers (Cahaba River, Coosa River and its tributaries for round rocksnail) is primarily due to extensive construction of dams, and the subsequent inundation of the snail's shoal habitats by the impounded waters.
• The curtailment of habitat and range for this species (and a few other snail species) in the Mobile Basin's larger rivers – (Black Warrior River, the Little Warrior River, and the Tombigbee River for the plicate rocksnail) is primarily due to extensive construction of dams, and the subsequent inundation of the snail's shoal habitats by the impounded waters.
• The curtailment of habitat and range for this (and few other snail species) species in the Mobile Basin's larger rivers (Coosa River, Alabama River and Cahaba River for Painted rocksnail) is primarily due to extensive construction of dams, and the subsequent inundation of the snail's shoal habitats by the impounded waters.
• In the case of the marsh snail Succinea putris, the snails can be parasitized by a microscopic flatworm of the species Leucochloridium paradoxum, which then reproduces within the snail's body.
• The snail's oesophageal gland houses symbiotic gammaproteobacteria from which the snail appears to obtain its nourishment.
• This bubble snail's distribution is circumglobal in tropical waters – the Red Sea, South Africa, West Africa, Arabian Sea, the Maldives, the Philippines to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Canary Islands, Brazil, and the Lusitanic area (Europe).
• For the duration of the snail's life the daughter rediae generate cercariae after feeding on the snail's gonads.
• The snail's operculum, a lid-like structure that closes the aperture when the snail retreats into its shell, is corneous and multispiral.
• The ridges of the snail's shell are not often visible because the whelk is usually overgrown by the high-spined commensal hydroid, Hydtractinia altispina, which looks prickly and is orange.

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