I found 4 microsnails while cleaning and putting away pots for the year. I think they are pinecone snails (Strobilops) but I'll have to take a better look with the ol USB microscope to be sure. If they are alive I'd like to try keeping them in some kind of mini terrarium.

Can anyone recommend a paper or website that describes a terrarium set up for microsnails?

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Here's a little brown-lipped snail (𝘊𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘦𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴) friend hitching a ride on my boot, from this morning's hike on the Wiley Trails:

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Sluggy friend says "Hi!"

(Western dusky slug, 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴, from the Wiley trails)

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Snails of Malibu, exhibit A

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Died January 5, 1904, German naturalist Karl Alfred von Zittel.

A pioneer of paleontological & stratigraphic research in Germany.

In 1884 he introduced "Ammonoidea" to specifically refer to the fossils of Mesozoic cephalopods 🦑, previously a name given to various curled shells 🐚
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A freshwater snail with eggs on its shell. It may be E. pybasii aka the Spring Elimia, which are endemic to the southeast US in the Tennessee River drainage.

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