Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Posts: 1,261
|
Post by Leah on Jul 2, 2005 19:16:36 GMT
yay!!!!!!! ;D
|
|
|
Post by bookitten on Jul 13, 2005 14:59:27 GMT
and we would have bought a mansion, but we keep snails in it then we have to live in a shed [the shed will be covered in drawings of snails LOL]
|
|
Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Posts: 1,261
|
Post by Leah on Jul 21, 2005 9:27:38 GMT
wow! A mansion full of snails! Dude! I'd end up filling the shed with snails to tho. We'd have to live in the garden, with the garden snails!
|
|
|
Post by bookitten on Jul 21, 2005 11:57:35 GMT
ummm..... can u translate that into toddler talk for me? I love how the camera, particularly on the 9th picture, has picked up the decussate granulations on the nepionic whorls that are typical of young tigers (according to Bequaert). paul
|
|
|
Post by bookitten on Jul 21, 2005 12:01:41 GMT
yeah, the we'l end up getting overun in the garden and have to live underground... but then that gets overrun with snails too! then we get REALLY overrun and we start a plage of snails destroying all the crops everywhere.... then we are put in jail.... then the jail gets attacked by our army of snails! the we get sent to a mental hospital... but the army attacks there too! then the whole WORLD gets overrun with snails so we have to live in a spaceship but its really cramped with snails LOL [yes, im a total nutcase!]
|
|
|
Post by bookitten on Jul 21, 2005 12:02:28 GMT
MWHAHAHAHAHA!
|
|
Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
Posts: 1,261
|
Post by Leah on Jul 21, 2005 12:05:39 GMT
ARGH!!!!!!!!!! ATTACK OF THE SNAILS!!!!!!
|
|
|
Post by Paul on Jul 21, 2005 14:57:27 GMT
Certainly,
The Nepionic whorls are the earliest whorls that are already formed when the snail hatches.
The granulations are the texture or sculpture which the photo has highlighted excellently. You'll notice for most species, it is invisible to the naked eye.
Dessucate means "crossed or intersected in the form of an X cross or intersect so as to form a cross"
So, it means, the criss-crossed texture on the baby shell whorls.
I was just practicing my malacology terms, lol.
|
|