TY - JOUR AU - Monge-Nájera, Julián PY - 2020/08/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The mysterious crystalline tentacles of snails JF - Revista de Biología Tropical JA - Rev. Biol. Trop. VL - IS - 7 SE - DO - UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/51637 SP - AB - <div id="block-a6ff5a881a2ab3d86454" class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2"><div id="yui_3_17_2_1_1656627109480_646" class="sqs-block-content"><p id="yui_3_17_2_1_1656627109480_645" class=""><strong>200 years ago, an Estonian zoologist described a strange worm that lived on the skin of freshwater snails. No one knew what it was doing there, and after 200 years, the answer is that it may be a protector of the snail, that it may be a parasite, or maybe both. It is important to me because I got to know these worms in person when I did my first scientific study almost four decades ago. They looked like dozens of liquid crystal tentacles protruding from the snail.</strong></p></div></div><div id="block-59cd2d4f55fac1d7c44e" class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-text-ready" data-aspect-ratio="86.85714285714286" data-block-type="5">&nbsp;<img src="/public/site/images/kbonilla/1_(11)1.jpg"></div> ER -