gastropod

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.