Definition of Sea snail. Meaning of Sea snail. Synonyms of Sea snail

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Definition of Sea snail

Sea snail
Sea snail Sea" snail` (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. (b) Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.

Meaning of Sea snail from wikipedia

- Sea snails are slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external s****, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda...
- word "snail" is used in this most general sense, it includes not just land snails but also numerous species of sea snails and freshwater snails. Gastropods...
- Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails of the family Conidae. Fossils of cone snails have been found from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs...
- Phoenicia. It is secreted by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name Murex (Bolinus brandaris...
- scaly-foot gastropod, scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano snail is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the...
- A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name...
- Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, tapered s****. Many are eaten by humans, such as the common whelk of the North...
- Scotch bonnet (Semic****is granulata) is a medium-sized to large species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily C****inae, the helmet s****...
- Fragum erugatum. Certain species of gastropod seas**** (the s**** of sea snails) can sometimes be common, washed up on sandy beaches, and also on beaches...
- alaskana, a sea snail in the family Melanodrymiidae Onoba alaskana, a minute sea snail in the family Rissoidae Setia alaskana, a minute sea snail in the family...