A team of Japanese as well as Thai researchers have actually uncovered 5 species of luminous land snails– the initial such locate in 80 years.
Professor Oba Yuichi of the Department of Environmental Biology of Chubu (*5 *) in Aichi Prefecture as well as researchers at a college in Thailand have actually released searchings for from their joint research.
The team claims that there have to do with 30,000 understood species of terrestrial snails worldwide, yet just one species which was uncovered in Singapore in 1943 was formerly understood to be luminous.
The researchers have actually examined land snails accumulated in Thailand as well as located the 5 species to be luminous.
They state that the 4 of them coming from the category Phuphania generate a continual green light, while one species of Quantula striata gives off a blinking green luminescence …