Quick Facts

• Snails are known as shelled gastropod
• Snails is the second largest phylum
• Type: Land snails
• Type: Sea snails
• Type: Freshwater snails
• Slugs are snails without shells
• Semi-slugs are snails with small shells
• Pulmonata group uses a lung
• Polyphyletic group uses gills
• Some marine species have lungs
• Habitats: Ditches, deserts, abyssal depths and fresh water
• Radula are Snails with ribbon-like tongue
• Snails mostly feed on plants and algae
• Marine species feed on both plant and animal matter
• Some land species feed on animal matter
• Syrinx aruanus (sea snail) is the largest living species
• Angustopila dominikae (land snail) is the smallest