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Yes, the picture was removed, we'll have to find one not protected by copyright. With the lifespan indicated by the book, this if for freshwater aquatic snails, not land snails. Marine gastropods live considerably shorter than land ones. When you say 'numerous other errors' can you give some examples? By the way, once again, this is a refferal to LAND snails, I'll fix the title to indicate that. And I think you'll find that the words feelers and tentacles are synonymous in this case. If anything, feelers might be preffered as the term tentacles might make someone think of octopus/squid/nautilus/etc appendages. That's an interesting suggestion you have raised on parasites, I'm more of an expert on behaviour than this sort of thing. If anyone can find the information, I encourage them to write a section on it. --User:Crazy drunk hobo

How many families, genera, species?

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=49253 is interesting, and includes some information that's not here.

The author, "Tem42", says: [1]

All my factual WUs are copyleft.

Or copyless, anyway.
I would like someone more motivated than I to port them to www.wikipedia.org

So there you go.

@JoJan: -- Please explain your unexplained reversion of my edit here. As I explained in my edit summary here, Velella's edit removed a very reliably sourced (BBC Science News) material and asserted totally unsourced information. You need to provide (1) a reliable source for the claim that "Many snails have sinister coiling" and (2) a supportable reason for removing the information sourced to the BBC article. This is Wikipedia Policy, not my opinion. Lacking these the article must be returned to the state it was in before your revert. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 06:10, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Occasional left handed snails are found amongst a generally right handed species and are quite common. Why the BBC chose to report this one is unclear, but the occurrence is neither particularly unusual nor encyclopaedic. This is especially so since there are some well known, and very common, left handed species. The addition was written to the article as if this direction of coiling was a rare and an especially notable event. It is neither.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   08:43, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with user:Velella. Your addition wasn't wrong but it is not needed. The chirality of the snail shell has been explained in the article Gastropod shell. We don't need to give a particular example in a general article, unless it is very exceptional. You can read an abstract about chirality in the article The convoluted evolution of snail chirality by Schilthuizen M, Davison A. [2]. JoJan (talk) 09:37, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First, it was Whale7's addition, not mine. My only contribution was to restore their edit and correct the capitalization errors.

Second, Wikipedia's standard is verifiability using reliable sources as defined in WP:V and WP:RS. Summarily removing another editor's sourced work without sourced justification or explanation is not the Wikipedia way. Velella at least explained their edit even though they offered no evidence.

Third, since you apparently have a reliable source that refutes the BBC article, please incorporate that source into the article with a brief section on snail chirality so that future readers of the encyclopedia will have the facts at their disposal. That is why we are here. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 16:23, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]