Move over, Gary the Snail. There’s a new gastropod in town, and its name is “Anauchen picasso,” named after the Spanish painter for its defined, swirled shell that evokes early 20th-century Cubism. In a paper published in April in the scientific journal ZooKeys, an international group of nine researchers classified 46 novel species of land snail typically found in Southeast Asia that belong to the greater mollusk family known as Hypselostomatidae (also referred to as “microsnails”). The newly named snail belongs to the Anauchen microsnail subspecies, which are defined by their shells’ prominent last “whorl” and generally “spirally striated” form. Serbian biologist Vukašin Gojšina, the paper’s lead author, specifically cited in an interview “the presence of a strong keel on the last whorl which makes it look angled,” reminding them of the Cubist style. He also said that naming a species after a well-known figure can help make it more visible and ensure its protection. “We saw this she...