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The latest additions and changes on the present site:

• NEW: weichtiere.at now features an own symbol, a so-called favicon. Now our pages can always be recognized by the symbol on the right. (09.02.10)
   
• NEW: A page on "Milk Snails (Otala Schumacher 1817)" has been freshly edited. (21.01.10)
   
• NEW: The page on "What do snails eat?" has been freshly edited: Different food sources have been tested in the terrarium on several snail species. (20.01.10)
   
• NEW: The page on "Feeding and Nutrition of Snails" in the morphology chapter has been freshly edited. (20.01.10)
   
• NEW: The page on "The Locomotion of Snails" in the morphology chapter has been rewritten and largely extended. (19.01.10)
   
• A new page on the Turkish snail (Helix lucorum) has been added to the homepage. (16.10.09)
   
• The page on leaf snails (Hygromiidae) has been extended by a description of the western heath snail (Helicella itala). (13.09.09)
   
• The page about "The Evolution of Mollusc Eye" has been revised and freshly updated. (07.07.09)
   
• A page about "A Blind Snail" has been added to the homepage. (05.07.09)
   
• Two new movies have been added: "A snail crawling on a knife's blade" (MOV file, ca. 7 MB), und "A snail feeding on a piece of cucumber" (MOV file, ca. 4,5 MB). (04.07.09)
   
• The page on leaf snails (Hygromiidae) is now also available in English. (30.06.09)
   
• A picture series by Christian Gagelmann shows the inter-species mating between a Roman snail (Helix pomatia) and a grove snail (Cepaea nemoralis). (25.06.09)
   
• A new movie clip has been added: "Foot sole of a crawling snail" (MOV file, ca. 2 MB) (10.06.09)
  
  
• There is a new page about the black keel back slug (Limax cinereoniger). (09.06.09)
   
• A new movie clip has been added: "A crawling snail (Cornu aspersum)" (MOV file, ca. 5 MB) (05.06.09)
  
  
• The page on giant African land snails (Achatinidae) has been revised and freshly translated. (01.08.08)
   
• There is a new page on cheese snails (Helicodontidae). Those middle size snails have got a depressed shell spire which gives the shell the appearance of a round loaf of cheese. (28.06.08)
   
• The Terrestrial snails navigation menu has been relieved by a new page on "Terrestrial Snails of Europe", on which the terrestrial snails of Europe are described in groups (families and subfamilies), as soon as sufficient picture material is available. (27.06.08)
   
• There is a new page on keelback slugs (Limacidae). Those slugs domestic to the European fauna are not closely related to the roundback slugs such as the Spanish slug and aside from a different appearance in colour and body shape, at least the larger species also display very distinctive mating methods, known especially from the leopard slug (Limax maximus). A relative, the black keelback slug (Limax cinereoniger) may grow to exceed a length of 20 cm (8 in.) and is regarded as the largest terrestrial slug worldwide. (19.06.08)
   
• The page on helicid snails (Helicidae) has been divided in three parts: I: Ariantinae and II: Helicinae subfamilies and III: Mediterranean Helicidae. (10.06.08)
   
• NOTE: The gallery page has been removed. There is an interactive gallery (albeit only in German so far) on http://galerie.weichtiere.at.  (03.06.08)
   
• The page on the common or blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) has been revised, freshly translated and moved to a new location. (22.05.08)
   
• A paragraph on the Mountain Banded Snail (Cepaea sylvatica) has been added to the page on Helicid snails. (20.05.08)
   
• The chapter on body structure and organs of gastropods has been extended by a page on Snails' Tentacles. While some snails have got four tentacles, some only two, some even seem to have six of them, there is also the question for the function of these gastropod tactile organs. (16.03.08)
   
• There is a new page on the invasion of Lusitanian slugs (Arion lusitanicus) in German snail cultivation pens. The slugs are partly carnivorous and hunt for other snails in an atypically active way. The proprietors of snail farms already compare this to a locust invasion. (21.02.08)
   
• The page on "Glass snails (Vitrinidae)" has been revised and moved to a new location. It now also contains a complete species list of Vitrinidae of the UK and Ireland, according to Clecom. (19.01.08)
   
• The page on the Feeding and Nutrition of Snails has been revised and moved to a new location. (06.01.08)
   
• The page on Roman snails (Helix) has been moved to a new location. From all pages of this complex the navigation menu can now be started. (05.01.08)
   

Additions and changes before 2008.