Shell generally, thin, fragile, translucent and amber-coloured.
Pulmonata (Land Snails and Slugs)
The Pulmonata are one of three main clades of the Heterobranchia and include the majority of land snails and slugs, many freshwater snails and some marine representatives. Their mantle cavity is modified into an air-breating organ.
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Pulmonata (Land Snails and Slugs)
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Mantodea (Praying Mantises)
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda