- ... that a "gas slug" is not a gastropod but a volcanic phenomenon?
... that shell gorgets (example pictured) were usually made from lightning whelks?Shell gorget from Spiro Mounds
... that the snail Macklintockia scabra (pictured) has ghostly bars on the inside of the shell?basal view of Macklintockia scabra
- ... that Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871) was elevated to species level in 2009?
- ... that there are still a large number of gastropods that remain to be discovered in Afghanistan?