Gastropods can live in diverse environments, not just water or land.

Habitat Variation

Some gastropods have shells, while slugs, for instance, do not.

Shell Presence

Do not confuse gastropods with insects; they are a different class of animals.

Not Insects

In zoology, 'gastropod' is a term for a class within the Mollusca phylum.

Taxonomic Class

The term is used scientifically and may not be familiar in everyday conversation.

Scientific Precision

Gastropods are often studied in paleontology due to their well-preserved fossils.

Fossil Records

 It's a great bird, and they used to nest in the thousands, thousands in the northern Everglades. And then they've gone down to about 400 nesting pairs today. And why is that? Well, it's because they eat one source of food, an apple snail, about the size of a ping-pong ball, an aquatic gastropod. So as we started damming up the Everglades,

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 are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one deep-sea species that Deaver and her team have studied is the scaly foot deep seed gastropod also known as the scaly