WILMINGTON, N.C.— In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule protecting North Carolina’s magnificent ...
But the work has been held up by the presence of Little Whirlpool Ramshorn snails, aquatic gastropods which have shells just a few millimetres in diameter that are among the most endangered small ...
A multi-million-dollar road safety project has been held up for nearly a decade by a study into the protection of rare snails ...
The research – initially planned to take just three years – is examining whether it is possible to safely relocate the little whirlpool ramshorn snails which live in marshes surrounding a ...
Like other freshwater species facing extinction, the snails and clam have small habitats with highly restricted ranges ... All three species live in the Upper Klamath Lake. The Great Basin ramshorn ...