Snails

Scientific name:Gastropoda

 

Did you know that snails belong to an ancient group of animals called mollusks? Snails can be found in fresh water and marine water environments, and some snails are adapted to life on land. Snails have many different styles of shells such as a single coiled shell that is round, flattened, or highly spiralled. They have a distinct head with a pair of tenticals that can go in and out of it's body. The eyes are located at the end of each tentical. Under the the tenticals is the mouth. Inside of the mouth there is a tongue that acts like a saw to shred it's food.

 

And yet you still wonder how they bread, right? Most snails are hermaphrodites, and have both male and female reproductive ograns. Two snails cling together during mating and exchange sperm. The eggs are laid in a clear jelly coating and are common under the floating leaves of water plants.