Portal:Gastropods/Did you know/3


 * ... that a "gas slug" is not a gastropod but a volcanic phenomenon?


 * Craig_C_style_shell_gorget_Spiro_HRoe_2005.jpg... that shell gorgets (example pictured) were usually made from lightning whelks?


 * Macklintockia scabra 002.jpg... that the snail Macklintockia scabra (pictured) has ghostly bars on the inside of the shell?


 * ... 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?