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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
Cowry, the shells of certain sea snails, or the snails themselves; via Hindi and Urdu from Sanskrit kaparda (कपर्द), [13] which may be related to Tamil kotu (கோது) "shell". [ 14 ] Curry , a variety of dishes flavored with a spicy sauce; cognates exist in several Dravidian languages, [ 15 ] including Tamil (கறி ...
The anatomy of a common air-breathing land snail: much of this anatomy does not apply to gastropods in other clades or groups. Snails are distinguished by an anatomical process known as torsion, where the visceral mass of the animal rotates 180° to one side during development, such that the anus is situated more or less above the head. This ...
Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic subclass of molluscs in the class Gastropoda.It is a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.
Revolving lines – Spiral lines on a snail shell which run parallel with the sutures. [1] Rhombic – Having four sides, the angles being oblique. [1] Rhomboid – Four-sided, but two of the sides being longer than the others. [1] Rimate – Provided with a very small hole or crack, as some snails in which the umbilicus is very narrowly open. [1]
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
These snails have rounded shells with a high spire, an oval aperture, and a siphonal notch. This family of snails is found worldwide. These snails are found mostly in shallow water, on sandy or muddy substrates, often intertidally, but sometimes in deep water. They can be present in very large numbers in suitable habitat.
These land snails have opercula, which helps identify them as "winkles gone ashore", in other words, snails within the clade Littorinimorpha and the informal group Architaenioglossa. Members of the snail family Pulmonata , which includes carboniferous land sails and some freshwater snails of the order Basommatophora , are protandrous ...