Сухопутные улитки – маленькие сокровища

Native Pacific island biotas are disappearing rapidly. A major and relatively well-known component of the island faunas are the land snails, which are recognized especially for their high diversity and high levels of endemism. But they are also recognized for being under severe threat from human activities including habitat destruction and introduction of alien predators. The tree snails in the family Partulidae, for example, have been termed the "flagships of terrestrial invertebrate conservation in the Pacific" (Cowie & Cook, 2001) because of the recent drastic decline and extinction of many species. Many nonindigenous snail species are being introduced, replacing the native species, and leading to a homogenization of land snail faunas across the Pacific and more widely.

The land snail fauna of the Samoan archipelago is no exception. As recognized in a comprehensive nomenclatural catalog of the Samoan snails and slugs (see the list of publications of the Samoan Snail Project), developed as the first step in the present assessment of the fauna, there are (or were) 94 recognized native land snail species. Of these 94 species, 59 are endemic to the archipelago, with 34 of these 59 recorded from only single islands. The catalog also listed 18 species of nonindigenous snails and slugs, most of them widespread synanthropic species.

bearoma · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 16:07

Много картинко, в основном цепеи

http://www.flickr.com/groups/snails/pool/

Ещё, построже.

http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Bilder/

rhinoceras · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 17:23

Опять хулиганишь? Теперь на пару дней лазанья по ссылкам, этож каторга :-)

bearoma · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 17:29

Подожди, это ещё не всё. Каторга? Я, кажется, только что согласилась на килли-фиш + планирую сажать на нерест петухов, которые дикие.

Ульки - приятные фото

http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody_pics/se...57600237004078/

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cu...ails/index.dsml

Tropical Land Snail Diversity

Там менюшка зелёная (где Шри Ланка и пр. - советую попрыгать)

Ты одним глазком поглядывай и статьи пиши

rhinoceras · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 18:26

Одно утешает: ты тоже подсела на цепеек, их формы можно коллекционировать оч долго (если знать, где искать). Ципея не хуже петушка, согласись :-)

bearoma · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 18:34

Подборочка картинок из ссылок выше

Arion lusitanicus x Arion ater

Цепейки

Неизвестно:

Indrella ampulla (Benson) is a monotypic Ariophantid genus endemic to wet forests in the Western Ghats, India. The shell is delicate being mostly protinaceous with a relatively low calcium carbonate content; the body exhibits dymantic colour polymorphism..

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cu.../southasia.dsml

bearoma · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 19:36

http://www.conchbooks.de/shop/en-us/dept_7.html - книги по улям, буа-га-га

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/mollu/forsch.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pglasby/383943089/

Эту я просто напоминаю:

http://www.arnobrosi.com/snail.html

Великое разнообразие флоридских слизней:

http://www.jaxshells.org/807b.htm

Ещё слизни:

http://www.lwatrous.com/missouri_mollusks/...ails/photo5.htm

rhinoceras · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 22:14

Эх, пару улиточек бы из Малайзии бы...

:-)

bearoma · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 22:30

Я не заказывала... Заказывала бусы

rhinoceras · 2 Декабря, 2007 в 23:20

Проза, проза...

bearoma · 4 Декабря, 2007 в 21:33

ТАдада-ТАМ та-да-та-ТАМ

http://www.femorale.com.br/shellphotos/ - ракушки, ай, было уже, по-моему… старею

http://www.weichtiere.at/Schnecken/index.html - живые улитки

И кое-что на вкусное

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elfy/sets/746504/

А это вы видели, да? Живое.

http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/snailmenu.htm

http://www.calacademy.org/research/MAD/MAD_GUIDE_2.htm

bearoma · 4 Декабря, 2007 в 22:15

Целый улиточный блог

http://leptopoma.blog39.fc2.com/

bearoma · 5 Декабря, 2007 в 16:50

Я думала, что Инет исчерпал себя на тему, и впала в печаль. Но нет… Хотя всё равно мало.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatinella

Oʻahu tree snails are a large group of colorful tropical tree-living air-breathing land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the genus Achatinella. They live in Hawaii, and they are all endangered.

http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/Hawaii/...ee%20Snails.htm

http://www.fws.gov/pacificislands/wesa/snailsoahu.html

Florida Tree Snails are shelled mollusks which live on the bark of hardwood trees. Their two-to-three inch spiraled shells can be found in some 60 different color varieties, ranging from nearly solid dark brown, to varieties boldly striped with pink, yellow and green, to solid white.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/ever/eco/liguus.htm

On Tree Snails

By Harry G. Lee

One doesn't normally associate arboreal snails with northeastern Florida, but there are no less than three species of land snails which have an interesting predilection for life in trees.* In the case of Drymaeus dormani (W. G. Binney, 1857) (pictured below), this habit has been the source of great interest.

http://www.jaxshells.org/ontree.htm

common name: tree snails (of Florida)

scientific name: Drymaeus, Orthalicus and Liguus spp. (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae)

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/gastro/tree_snails.htm

Оригами

http://www.tammyyee.com/tt-snail.html

Species Spotlight : Liguus Tree Snail

http://floridaconservation.org/viewing/species/treesnail.htm

Today, all but five of 61 described Society Islands partulid tree snails are extinct in the wild, following the introduction of the carnivorous rosy wolf snail, he said. The predatory intruder was meant to control yet another snail, the giant African land snail, which was presumably brought to the island as a potential food source. It instead became something of an agricultural pest, and the rosy wolf snail was brought in. As a consequence, Tahiti’s tree snail populations have been almost completely wiped out, and three of the island’s eight endemic Partula species are officially extinct, a fourth persisting only in captivity.

http://www.physorg.com/news102611057.html

Tahitian tree snails may still have a future, U-M study suggests

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5930

Mariana Tree Snails

There are 123 tree snail species of the family Partulidae; historically, the Mariana Islands have supported five of them. One of these snails, Partula salifana, has not been seen since 1946 and in considered extinct. The four other snail species shown here are currently candidates for the endangered species list.

http://www.fws.gov/pacificislands/wesa/pacsnails.html

They eat fungus from the surface of leaves.

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/good-bad/achatinella.html

Liguus Tree Snails of South Florida

http://www.southeasternoutdoors.com/wildli...ree-snails.html

Pacific Tree Snails (Partulidae)

http://www.weichtiere.at/Mollusks/Schnecke...nd/partula.html

The Tree Snails of the genus Liguus are found throughout the Caribbean Islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and in the southernmost area of the Florida peninsula including the Florida Keys. The days of these snails are numbered as the destruction of habitat within the range of this unique mollusc continues at an accelerated pace. Some color forms are extinct and many other color forms, extinct in their South Florida habitats, barely survive in transplanted colonies within the confines of the Everglades National Park.

http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Gold/9440/...s/lighompa.html

Oahu Tree Snails – youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4wnJp6sq_I

Partula snail

Scientific name: Partula affinis

Country: French Polynesia

Continent: Oceania

Diet: Algae, leaves

http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/anim...ates/tree-snail

Prehistoric aesthetics explains snail biogeography puzzle

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6047

Papuina pulcherrima

http://manandmollusc.net/MolluscMomentPast...ulcherrima.html

The Variety of Snails in the World

This is the page where i provide pictures and descriptions of snail species from around the world. I will try to pick some interesting ones from the 40, 000 terrestrial species.

http://www.freewebs.com/worldofsnails/snailsoftheworld.htm

http://www.roggo.ch/photos-weichtiere.htm

Invertebrates - Land Snails

http://www.wettropics.gov.au/pa/pa_snails.html

FAMILIA CAMAENIDAE – раковины

http://elrincon-continentales.iespana.es/Camaenidae.htm

bearoma · 5 Декабря, 2007 в 18:13

Snail pictures

http://madaboutsnails.googlepages.com/snailpictures-1

http://www.fws.gov/southeast/vbpdfs/species/inverts/sits.pdf

bearoma · 8 Декабря, 2007 в 19:31

Decollate Snails (cone shapped), Rumina decollata,

eating a Brown Garden Snail (round), Helix Aspersa.

http://www.growquest.com/snail_destroyer.htm - ещё хищные улитки

Snails from Belum-Temenggor Reserve in Upper Perak.

http://budak.blogs.com/the_annotated_budak.../09/snails.html

Доисторические:

http://www.high-pasture-cave.org/index.php...004_land_snails

This tiny land snail Euchondrus desertorum from the Negev Desert in Israel is only about 12 mm long. It is one of several species that play an important role in the nitrogen cycles in the ecology of this arid area.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/cryptogams/underwor...l-12/index.html

a land snail feeds on microorganisms found on a fern along the Appalachian Trail

http://www.discoverlifeinamerica.org/atbi/.../overview.shtml

Study On Accidental Introduction Of Invasive Snails With Parasitic Flatworms May Help Mitigate Spread Of Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/...61219094419.htm