How to Use "gastropod" with Example Sentences
- 1. This new species of hydatinid gastropod was discovered from a sperm whale carcass in the deep sea .
- 2. This gastropod ( from the hydatinidae family ) was recently discovered living on a sperm whale carcass in the deep sea near kagoshima in southern japan .
- 3. A ciliated swimming organ that develops in certain larval stages of most marine gastropod mollusks .
- 4. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell .
- 5. The largest known land gastropod is the african giant snail achatina achatina , the largest recorded specimen of which measured 39.3cm ( 15.5 in ) from snout to tail when fully extended , with a shell length of 27.3cm ( 10.75 in ) and weighed exactly 900g ( 2lb )