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Snails, Slugs, and Nudibranchs - Gastropoda
Gastropods (Gastropoda) include a wide variety of organisms such as terrestrial snails and slugs, sea slugs, sea hares, sea butterflies, canoe shells, ...
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Natural History of Terrestrial Snails
Find out more about terrestrial snails, their classification, diet, and natural history in this illustrated natural history of snails.
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Snail Classification
Snails are invertebrates, they lack a backbone. They belong to a large and highly diverse group of invertebrates known as the Phylum Mollusca (also known ...
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A Natural History of Terrestrial Snails
Snails start life as an egg. Snails bury their eggs in a nest a few centimeters below the surface of the ground.
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A Natural History of Terrestrial Snails
Most terrestrial snails are hermaphroditic which means that each individual possesses both male and female reproductive organs.
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How Snails Move
Terrestrial snails move using their muscular foot. By creating an undulating 'wave' motion along the length of the foot, a snail is able to push against the ...
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A Natural History of Terrestrial Snails
Snails are small and slow. They have few defenses. They must retain enough moisture so their tiny bodies don't dry out, and they must obtain enough food to ...
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Evolution of Snails
The earliest known snails were similar in structure to limpets. These creatures lived in shallow sea water and fed on algae and they had a pair of gills.
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Snail Diet and Feeding Habits
Most terrestrial snails are herbivorous. They feed on plant material (such as leaves, ... A few species of snails are scavengers, feeding on decaying animals.
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A Natural History of Terrestrial Snails
Terrestrial snails have eyes that are located on the tips of their upper, longer pair of tentacles. But snails don't see in the same way we do.
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