Preferred term
snails
Definition
- [Henderson's] n. generally refers to a member of the large group of terrestrial and freshwater gastropod molluscs of the subclass Pulmonata, which have a helically coiled shell, no ctenidia, and in which the mantle cavity is used as a lung.
Broader concept
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
In other languages
Chinese
- 蜗牛
Japanese
- 巻貝類
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20621