When tenants stay on the property after a lease has expired, they become month-to-month tenants if the landlord accepts their presence (usually by cashing the rent check). In most states, the terms and conditions of the lease carry over to what is now an oral monthly rental agreement.
Mollusks are a group of invertebrates that includes chitons, snails, slugs, limpets, squids, oysters, clams, cuttlefish, octopus and many more. There are about 100,000 species of molluscs alive today. The articles listed below provide information about the characteristics, classification and evolution of molluscs.
Limpets, mussels and barnacles on a rock in the intertidal zone. Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. 60,000â75,000 known living species belong to it. Most of are marine, but many live in freshwater or on land. Their fossil record goes back to the later Cambrian. Slugs and snails, abalones, limpets, cowries, conches, top shells, whelks, and sea slugs are all gastropods. The gastropods are in origin sea-floor predators, though they did evolve into many other habitats. Many lines living today evolved in the ...