While the snails that the CTU team found in Argao were barely visible, their mere presence indicated that the forests were “alive,” he said. Rosales headed the research team seeking out snail species in Cebu for identification. Rosales said in Cebu province alone, where 20 percent of the landmass were forest patches, biodiversity remained healthy. “It would be a great discovery if our micro mollusks in Argao would be proven to be the smallest snail in the world,” Rosales said. In the Argao campus of CTU, four plots of 20-by-100-meter forest lands had been protected for research on micro mollusks.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 14, 2018 21:11 UTC