This gastropod is an air breathing pulmonate (its gills being replaced by a single lung). Spiral bristles radiate from the shell (a whorl), resembling a firework wheel from which it takes its name... This small (9.7mm) terrestrial land snail is found only in an area of aproximately 250 ha in KwaZulu, Natal.
He is best known as the high priest Imhotep in the motion picture "The Mummy" and its sequel. He also played the role of the superheroe Darkman (II and III).
And starred in Secret Agent Cody Banks and G.I Joe!
He was Charles Darwin´s half cousin and a victorian geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer and the inventor of fingerprint identification among other things...