Portal:Gastropods/Did you know/11

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  Megathura crenulata

  ... that keyhole limpet hemocyanin from the great keyhole limpet Megathura crenulata (pictured) is used as vaccine carrier protein?

• ... that the malacologist Matthew William Kemble Connolly was the father of writer and critic Cyril Connolly?

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  Amphibulima browni

  ... that Amphibulima browni (pictured), an endemic land snail species from Dominica, was not reported alive during the whole of the 20th century?

• ... that populations of Deroceras rodnae from western Europe (for example from Germany) were identified as Deroceras juranum in 2009, and that these two species are externally indistinguishable?

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  Moais on Easter Island

  ... that Conus miliaris preys on a more diverse assemblage of prey at Easter Island (pictured)?