{"id":534,"date":"2005-11-26T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/26\/empty-snail-shell\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T20:54:42","slug":"empty-snail-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/26\/empty-snail-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Snail Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sonoran Desert has a wide variety of diverse species, but away from wetland areas, the desert is not exactly crawling with gastropods, so I was a bit surprised to find this empty snail shell in the desert, miles away from any water or human habitation.<\/p>\n

\"Snail<\/p>\n

If there are any terrestrial snails that live in arid Sonoran Desert scrub, I have never seen them. I have no idea where this former snail might have originated, but I found the shell on a rocky hillside under a Saguaro. I wonder if it might have been dropped by a bird either living in the Saguaro or with a nest among its arms.<\/p>\n

Update from A\u00d6rstan at Snail’s Tales<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am not familiar with the snails of Arizona, but what you found was probably a Sonorella<\/em> species. This is what Bequaert & Miller (Mollusks of the Arid Southwest, 1973) said: \u201cEven the arid Tucson Mts and their loosely connected nearby hills have three species, all widespread (S. magdalenensis<\/em>, S. sabinoensis<\/em>, and S. baboquivariensis<\/em>).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sonoran Desert has a wide variety of diverse species, but away from wetland areas, the desert is not exactly crawling with gastropods, so I was a bit surprised to find this empty snail shell in the desert, miles away from any water or human habitation. If there are any terrestrial snails that live in… Read More → <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-invertebrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}