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dunl 11-16-2010 12:22 AM

hitch hiker id needed?
 
Correct forum? I dunno.

Anyways, I thought I had one friend along for the ride...it appears that there are two. The look like....well...the first one looked like nothing. Maybe a squirming piece of snail meat that got sliced off one of the snails by mistake. Now it seems to have an antenna or two. I was taking some shots of it, and then watched another come sliding by. :-o

Juvenile snails? The second one looks like it might be developing some kind of a shell?

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/


This one has no shell whatsoever, demonstrated by its ability to crawl into a tiny hole a 1/4 of its side.
http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/


http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/


http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0...D550/ry%3D400/

chandigz 11-16-2010 02:15 AM

They're stomatella snails. They are fairly common good hitchhiker.

dunl 11-16-2010 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chandigz (Post 565208)
They're stomatella snails. They are fairly common good hitchhiker.



Sweet. Thanks, I'll go look em up. :)

chandigz 11-16-2010 03:46 AM

Heres a good link for hitchhikers. http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html


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