Snail illustrations | 1 |
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Flower paintings, Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573-1621) a Flemish-dutch painter. Note: a Pila sp. shell is situated at the right corner. |
Limpkin with an apple snail (Pomacea paludosa) in the Florida swamps. Illustration made by Mary Adore Coloney. (picture not licenced under creative commons) |
Limpkin, closeup from illustration on the left. Illustration made by Mary Adore Coloney. (picture not licenced under creative commons) |
The Keong Emas Theater in Jakarta. The shape of this building was inspired by the golden apple snail. (picture not licenced under creative commons) |
Apple snail illustration made in Photoshop. The picture was on the front-page of the first version of the this website in early 1998. |
Apple snail illustration made by Donya Quick. (picture not licenced under creative commons) |
Pomacea maculata. From George Perry's Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells, 1811. Note the dark spots at the inside of the shell. Because of these spots, the snail got its name maculata (latin for spotted, stained). (picture not licenced under creative commons) |
Pomacea diffusa. Inkt drawing by Stijn Ghesquiere. |
Marisa cornuarietis. From Charles Knight's "The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature" (London: 1844), p. 216. |
The rolling apple snail from Pam Spencer. |