land snails
Slow garden crawlers
Land snails are snails that live on land rather than in water, carrying coiled shells on their backs and leaving slime trails as they move.
They're familiar garden creatures, sometimes pests, sometimes escargot.
The term distinguishes them from their aquatic relatives—sea snails and freshwater snails.
- gastropodSingle-shelled soft creature
- shellHard outer covering
- escargotEdible land snails
- slugNaked terrestrial mollusk
- radulaMollusk scraping organ
aestivation · detritivores · forest floor · hibernate · invertebrate · snail shell · spiral shell · leaf litter · antennae · damp · calcium carbonate · lettuce · trail · slow · snail pace · rainy · rain garden · pest
- invertebratesinvertebrate, arthropod, arthropods, mollusk, crustacean
- mollusksclams, mollusk, snail, mussels, clam
- escargotescargot, Bourguignon, garlic butter, herb butter, French tradition
- gastropodssnail, slug, nudibranchs, sea slugs, sea snail
- pulmonatesslug, slugs, banana slug, escargot, pond snail
- island wildlifemarine iguana, Darwin's finches, Galapagos tortoise, giant tortoise, giant tortoises
habitat medium
land snailssea snails
Shelled marine mollusks
marine snails · slugs · land slugs · freshwater snails · water snails
locomotion speed
land snailscheetahs
Fastest land mammals
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