Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Snail is a common
name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have
coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in a general
sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails.
Otherwise snail-like creatures that lack a shell (or have only a very
small one) are called slugs.One species of land snail, the three species
of Giant African land snail, can grow to be 15 in (38 cm) from snout to
tail, and weigh 1 kilogram (2 lb).The largest living species of sea
snail is Syrinx aruanus which has a shell that can measure up to 90 cm
(35 in) in length, and the whole animal with the shell can weigh up to
18 kg (40 lb).