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Osmia spinulosa is a solitary mason bee from Europe notable for its unique habit of constructing nests inside empty terrestrial snail shells. The female bee provisions these shells with a mixture of pollen and nectar before laying a single egg and sealing the entrance with masticated plant material,...

The Trixie Snail Shell Activity Game is a wooden puzzle toy designed to engage small pets like rabbits, guinea pigs, or chinchillas. Its distinctive snail shape incorporates sliding elements and removable shell compartments, offering an interactive challenge. This product promotes mental stimulation...

The Gold-fringed Mason Bee is a solitary insect notable for the golden hair fringing its abdomen, typically found nesting in sandy European soils.

The Carrier Shell (Xenophora pallidula) is a deep-sea marine gastropod found in the Indo-Pacific region, typically at depths ranging from 100 to 1000 meters. This species exhibits a unique behavior among mollusks by deliberately attaching foreign objects—such as empty shells, coral fragments, rocks,...

The painted top shell is a marine gastropod in the family Trochidae. Calliostoma zizyphinum occurs on rocky seabeds in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean region, with a range extending northward to Scandinavian waters. Its conical shell is usually smooth and glossy, with a cream, pink, or r...

The commercial top shell is a marine gastropod in the family Trochidae, native to tropical Indo-Pacific reefs and rocky coastal habitats. Trochus niloticus has a thick, turban-shaped shell lined with nacre, the iridescent material commonly called mother-of-pearl. It has been collected for food and f...

The Tortoiseshell Limpet (Testudinalia testudinalis) is a marine gastropod of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It lives on rocky intertidal surfaces and belongs to the limpet family Lottiidae. Its low, cap-shaped shell has mottled brown coloration that resembles natural tortoiseshell, giving th...

The West Indian Top Shell (Cittarium pica) is a large marine gastropod of the Caribbean and nearby western Atlantic shores. It belongs to the family Trochidae and has a heavy, conical shell with a broad base and dark-and-light markings. The species lives on rocky intertidal and shallow subtidal surf...

Potamopyrgus antipodarum is a small freshwater snail native to New Zealand and commonly known as Jenkins’ spire shell or the New Zealand mud snail. It has a tall, many-whorled shell and can reproduce rapidly, allowing introduced populations to spread through rivers, lakes, and other freshwater syste...

Gibbula umbilicalis is a marine top shell found on rocky shores of the northeastern Atlantic, including intertidal habitats exposed to wave action. Its shell has a visible umbilicus, or hollow at the base, and may display purple, reddish, or brown bands and stripes. The snail grazes on algae and org...

Ficus communis is a marine gastropod in the family Ficidae, commonly called the common fig shell. It has a thin, inflated shell with a broad aperture and a shape that resembles a fig, together with fine spiral sculpture. The species lives in warm marine environments, commonly on sandy or muddy botto...

Turritella communis is a marine gastropod commonly known as the tower shell. It occurs in the northeastern Atlantic and is recognized by its tall, narrow, tightly coiled, conical shell, which gives the species its common name. The shell is usually marked by fine spiral sculpture and a pointed spire....

Calliostoma annulatum is a marine top shell found along the northeastern Pacific coast, from Alaska to Baja California. Its conical shell is known for yellow to orange coloration marked by contrasting purple or reddish spiral bands. The shell has a smooth, regularly coiled appearance and a pointed s...

Cerithidea californica, now often treated as Cerithideopsis californica and commonly called the California horn snail, is an estuarine mud snail in the family Potamididae. It lives in tidal wetlands and other brackish habitats along the eastern Pacific coast, with published records extending from Ca...

Phorcus lineatus, the toothed top shell, is a marine gastropod in the family Trochidae that lives on rocky shores of the northeastern Atlantic, from Morocco north to the British Isles. It occupies the high and middle intertidal zones of moderately exposed coasts and grazes biofilm and algae from roc...

Gibbula cineraria, now generally treated as Steromphala cineraria, is the gray top shell, a small marine gastropod in the family Trochidae. It is distributed along northeastern Atlantic coasts from Morocco north toward Norway and Iceland and is common on sheltered rocky shores, where it lives on alg...

Columbella mercatoria, the dove shell or West Indian dovesnail, is a small marine gastropod in the family Columbellidae. It is native to the western tropical Atlantic, especially the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and occurs in intertidal and shallow coastal habitats such as coral reefs, mangroves, l...