During a recent spate of good weather, Pam and I took a trip to the Oregon coast, Arch Cape to…
I’ve been putting off doing a profile on a slug until I had one that I could positively identify which…
As if snail identification wasn’t difficult enough, the taxonomy of Vespericola (family Polygyridae) is somewhat up in the air, with…
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know we even had multiple genera of freshwater mussels in our…
I believe these beautiful snails in the family Helicidae are Cepaea nemoralis (also known as Brown-lipped Snails and Banded Grove…
This is the eighth resident of The Cliff that I have posted about. I haven’t been there since Thanksgiving, having…
Today we are going to talk about another inhabitant of the cliffside ecosystem, the carnivorous snail Haplotrema vancouverense. All of…
There is much taxonomic confusion and discussion about this species of aquatic snail, and the closely related Bellamya japonica, with…