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A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.
Gastropods ( / ˈɡæstrəpɒdz / ), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ( / ɡæsˈtrɒpədə / ). [ 5] This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and from the land. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs ...
Land snail. Helix pomatia, a species of air-breathing land snail used for escargot, is a little bit larger than the common garden snail. A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells ...
Cornu aspersum (syn. Helix aspersa, Cryptomphalus aspersus ), known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. It was classified under the name Helix aspersa for over two ...
Diversity [ 1][ 3] 105–170 freshwater species; 9 genera; more than 150 nominal species. Synonyms. Pilidae. Ampullariidae, whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum.
Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. [ 1] It is also known as the Giant African land snail. [ 2] It shares the common name "giant African snail" with other species of snails such as Achatina achatina and Archachatina marginata.
Bithynia tentaculata, a small freshwater gastropod in the family BithyniidaePomacea insularum, an apple snailPlanorbella trivolvis, an air-breathing ramshorn snail. Freshwater snailsare gastropodmollusksthat live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral ...
The shells of most species of sea snails are spirally coiled. Some, though, have conical shells, and these are often referred to by the common name of limpets. In one unusual family , the shell of the snail has become two hinged plates closely resembling those of a bivalve; this family is sometimes called the "bivalved gastropods".