Shell of Bensonella mirabilis, holotype.

#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #myanmar just crawled in:

Bensonella mirabilis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/541B399B-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #BensonellaMirabilis

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails

Denby Fawcett: Seeking Love For The Endangered Hawaiian Land Snail Some people say they're icky and slimy. But these scientists think they're beautiful.

Described by their admirers as “the jewels of the forest,” thousands of snails once dotted the leaves of native plants from the shore to the mountains on all the islands.
Today, they can be found in the wild only in the misty forests on the highest volcanic mountains or in laboratories.

#landsnails

"Snails in the strip lynchets at Worth Matravers, Dorset: a fauna in calcareous grassland" has been published in the #JournalofConchology. #jconch @conchsoc #landsnails

Not gonna rest until this:
🐌 🔬 👷
… passes into standard emoji abbreviations in archaeological 💿 🐎 .
#LandSnails

Once again, I’m on the lookout for folks using #LandSnails in their environmental archaeology in the USA’s mid-Atlantic & New England regions. Bonus points for folks in Vermont!

🐌 🔬 👷

#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #china just crawled by:

Diplommatina yipingica

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/5C01F1EC-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zse....
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #DiplommatinaYipingica

#FAIRdata
#science #nature #conservation #animals #malacology #snails #landsnails

#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #thailand just crawled by:

Anauchen crassus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/C0322615-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #AnauchenCrassus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #nature #wildlife #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails

#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #frenchguiana just crawled by:

Lilloiconcha galbao

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/31E03958-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #LilloiconchaGalbao

#FAIRdata
#science #ecology #biodiversity #conservation #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails

#NewSpecies!
New snail from #malaysia just crawled in:

Hypselostoma bubalus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/22793DE1-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #HypselostomaBubalus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #taxonomy #ecology #nature #conservation #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails

Excited to go on snail safari in Morocco in just a few days! Area: Marrakech, Rabat, Meknes, Merzouga, Marrakech.
Please add promising locations, links etc below.
#landsnails #morocco #snaiksky

Four views of a shell of Helicarion issangoensis

"Notes on Pleistocene and Recent non-marine Mollusca from Zambia" has been published in the #JournalofConchology. #jconch #conchology #landsnails
doi.org/10.61733/jco...

"Taxonomic synopsis of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Brazilian Midwest deposited in the Coleção Malacológica de Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil" has been published by #journalofconchology
#jconch #conchology #conchsoc #biodiversity #landsnails
doi.org/10.61733/jco...