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 A Tultoma magnifca, Alabama's live-bearing snail, clings to the underside of an overturned rock, Weogufka Creek, Coosa County. (Photograph by L.J. Davenport) Extinction is forever, as the saying goes. While this truth is undeniable, the case of Tulotoma magnifica, the Alabama live-bearing snail, directly contradicts it. Once declared extinct, then rediscovered in huge numbers, the tulotoma--our state's only federally listed endangered snail--clings tightly to life.
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About the authorLarry Davenport holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Alabama. He is a professor of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Samford University in Birmingham, where he teaches courses on general botany, plant taxonomy, and wetlands. In 2007, he was named Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Davenport has contributed his Nature Journal column to Alabama Heritage since 1993. This column inspired his award-winning book Nature Journal (University of Alabama Press, 2010). Archives
October 1996
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