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Native Tasmanian snail named after Sir David Attenborough
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/native-tasmanian-snail-named-after-sir-david-attenborough/World-renowned naturalist. Living legend. Global treasure. How do you honour a man whose influence is so incomparable?
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A quest for endangered land snails on Lord Howe Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-quest-for-endangered-land-snails-on-lord-howe-island/As the date of the Lord Howe Island rodent eradication draws nearer, we have assessed the status of the islands endangered land snails.
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The phantom snail
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-the-phantom-snail/Perched on a hill of a Kimberley island lives Taiwanassiminea phantasma a newly described and rare species of land snail.
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Conservation of Australian Snails
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/conservation-of-australian-snails/Conservation programs tend to overlook some of the most important and most diverse groups of animals – the invertebrates.
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Snail mountain: the amazing snails of Mount Kaputar
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-snail-mountain/An extinct volcano in NSW is home to an endangered community of land snails, including a bright scarlet slug.
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Snail taxonomy: when genitals matter
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-snail-taxonomy/Two new species of land snail discovered in the Australian Outback that represent previously unknown genera: the penises gave them away.
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A radiation of river snails in Madagascar
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/madagascan-river-snails/Did Madagascar's famous biodiversity evolve on the island itself or did it arrive from the African continent? Malacologist Frank Kohler reports.
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Same same but different – a taxonomic detective story
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-same-same-but-different-a-taxonomic-detective-story/DNA sequences expose cryptic species of land snail on a remote Kimberley island
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Seagrass grazers coming out of their shells
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-seagrass-grazers-coming-out-of-their-shells/New research sheds light on a group of tiny snails that do us all a favour.
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