Portal:Gastropods/Did you know/3

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

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  Shell gorget from Spiro Mounds

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

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  basal view of Macklintockia scabra

  ... 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?