Eremina desertorum

Eremina desertorum (formerly Helix desertorum) is a species of land snail in the genus Eremina.

A specimen from Egypt, in the British Museum, and thought to be dead, was glued to an index card in March 1846. However, in March 1850, it was nevertheless found to be alive. The Canadian writer Grant Allen observed:

The Museum authorities accordingly ordered our friend a warm bath (who shall say hereafter that science is unfeeling!), upon which the grateful snail, waking up at the touch of the familiar moisture, put his head cautiously out of his shell, walked up to the top of the basin, and began to take a cursory survey of British institutions with his four eye-bearing tentacles. So strange a recovery from a long torpid condition, only equalled by that of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, deserved an exceptional amount of scientific recognition.