Carychium exile: Ice thorn snail

 
 

Welcome everyone to my webpage on the snail, Carychium exile, commonly referred to as the Ice Thorn snail. Here you will be able to explore many different aspects of the Ice Thorn snail’s life, such as the habitat in which it lives, how the animal reproduces, adaptations acquired throughout it’s lifetime, where it receives its nutrition to survive, and the interactions it shares between other organisms in its environment.

Domain: Eukarya

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Order: Basommatophora

Family: Ellobiidae

    Subfamily: Carychiidae

Genus: Carychium

Species: Carychium exile

Image Carychium exile borrowed by www.carnegiemng.org.

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