The beautiful painted snails or land snails of cuba, called polymita, are a snail species that occupy large, brightly colored and highly sought. Not a title often associated with the colonial island unless youre a biologist or conservationist cuba is home to some of the most beautiful and biologically diverse species of snails in the world. The cuban painted snail polymita picta has an elaborate if slow dance where they circle one another before they come together to mate. Bibliography of cuban terrestrial mollusca, including related and biohistorical papers on cuban malacology.
We have others similar to the ones shown in the site, but they are not exactly alike, you will receive the exact same box or shells that appear in the photos. The very name of these snails describes this special and distinctive feature. Ve mas ideas sobre caracoles, proyecto pedagogico y animales. Very special and rare book about the cuban polymitas by fernandez milera and martinez fernandez, printed in 1987, 119 pages, many images in full color, all about this rare shell only from cuba. Polymita picta, common name the cuban land snail or the painted snail, is a species of large, airbreathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family helminthoglyptidae.
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