How to use in-sentence of “gastropods”:
+ Snails are gastropods with a coiled shell large enough for the animal to pull back inside.
+ Ten of its 51 flowering plants, all four of its land birds and about a third of the identified insects and gastropods are endemic – a remarkable diversity given the island’s size.
+ That means only one lineage of gastropods in each group.
+ Marine gastropods include herbivores, detritus feeders, carnivores and a few ciliary feeders, in which the radula is reduced or absent.
+ Many marine gastropods are burrowers and have siphons or tubes that extend from the mantle and sometimes the shell.
+ The best-known gastropods are land slugs and snails, but more than half of all species live in a marine environment.
+ These gastropods breathe with gills.
+ Most of the gastropods of that era belong to primitive groups.
Example sentences of “gastropods”:
+ Many other gastropods have common names with "conch" in them.
+ The most basic form can still be seen in some gastropods and annelids.
+ The first gastropods were exclusively marine.
+ Many other gastropods have common names with “conch” in them.
+ The most basic form can still be seen in some gastropods and annelids.
+ The first gastropods were exclusively marine.
+ The name “sea slug” is most often applied to nudibranchs, as well as to other marine gastropods without obvious shells.
+ One of the earliest known terrestrial gastropods is “Maturipupa” which is found in the Coal Measures of the Carboniferous period in Europe.
+ Many gastropods are hermaphrodite, and do simultaneous copulation in pairs.
+ The gastropods are the most common type of mollusec.
+ Sea snail is a common term for gastropods which live in the sea.
+ The invertebrate species are largely unknown but a third of the island’s known non-marine gastropods and insects are endemic.
+ Modern predators like starfish, crabs, and hole-boring gastropods took over the sea floor, eating the benthic fauna in huge numbers.
+ Commonly, fossil gastropods from the rocks of the early Palaeozoic era are too poorly preserved for accurate identification.
+ Most molluscs have Shell shells, but some groups do not: octopods, slugs, and the gastropods known as sea slugs.