gastropod

[ UK /ɡˈæstɹəpˌɒd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
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How To Use gastropod In A Sentence

  • As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
  • However, early calapids in the Cretaceous were smaller in size and are not considered as major predators of bivalves and gastropods.
  • There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
  • A typical marine community consisted of these animals, plus red and green algae, primitive fish, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, and gastropods.
  • These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
  • It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus.
  • In the introductory paragraph of an article titled "Some sexologic observations on Oxyloma retusa (Lea)", published in 1977 in his journal Gastropodia (p. 102), he wrote: Archive 2008-02-01
  • The littoral zone was dominated by oligochaetes, gastropods, sphaerid clams, and chironomid larvae.
  • The fossil content consists of ammonites, belemnites, brachiopods, echinoderms, bivalves, crinoids, gastropods, ostracodes and benthic foraminifers.
  • Abundant terrestrial gastropods found clustered around fossil plant detritus may have been deposit feeders scavenging dry portions of channel floors.
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