THE LOVELY LITTLE "CHEESE SNAIL" - HELICODONTA OBVOLUTA - Hive Stock Images

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It's sometimes called "cheese snail" because of the shell ...

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... its shape resembles a bit the wheel of cheese.

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This shell has also another pretty peculiar characteristic ...

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... it's slightly hairy.

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It's not uncommon in the forest of the inland of this peninsula where I live ... but is hard to casually encounter because spends most of its time inside the rotting tree trunks. I put the snail out of there, on a piece of white paper I brought with me, for this photo session ... and then I returned him in his trunk.

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Hope you'll find some use case for this strange little snail :) As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work.

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Here is a bonus negative picture ... you can always turn it into positive in Photoshop :)



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Manually curated by ackhoo from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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I had no idea there was such a thing as a hairy snail. Wow :D Always learning from your posts, buddy thanks :)

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I also discovered this relatively recently, a decade ago while sniffing around the woods ... today while searching for the name of the species I found on Internet other hairy snails from Tropical Asia and Africa ... very cool little creatures. And also today I found out that only young snails of this species have hairy shells ... they get bald when they are older.

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I have never seen a snail like this! 😮 It looks like a hairy cinnamon bun!! 😄
Definitely not like my lil Dottie... 🐌😊

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A very strange and funny looking snail! It might have been a hybrid between normal earth snail and some alien species!! It coils like a small snake too! Nice capture!

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Hairy snails! What more could we possibly want :)

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a bald kitty?.. oh but we already have that kind! hmm...

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Smooth cacti 🌵

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smooth and fluffy? and purring ? will it be cacti, after all ???

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Of course, why not?

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amazing. my 1st thought was its photoshopped!
very strange creature, indeed.

@blacklux, a snail alert here!

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very beautiful and very unique, this is the first time I saw this furry snail is very extraordinary.

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I see a hairy snail for the first time)
Last photo, great! Reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland", and some other magic)

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:D It's the engagement snail!

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I don't see snails so much. I didn't realize some were hairy. The snails I am familiar with are without hair!
I'm so glad I came by... another thing new!

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I can't help wondering what went through its mind (mind?) during its brief excursion.

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:D Some kind of alien abduction scenario ... maybe ... X files episode from a snail's perspective

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That's incredible, I've never seen anything quite like it! Hairy shell on its side. Thanks for sharing.

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