what's the difference between a snail and a slug?
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snails have a shell, slugs doesn't
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Snails for food? snails are generally known to be so slow.\nIf french people like to eat snails as slow food,       maybe its because they don't like to eat FAST FOODS.\n\nWhatever....!
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the ucsb bannanna slugs
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Very true. Mollusc anatomy and physiology could fill a book.  Anatomy of a snail? A squid? A chambered Nautilus? A seahare? They are all molluscs yet very widely in their anatomy and physiology.\n\nThe books the above poster referenced are excellent college level texts that cover most invertebrate life.  I would also suggest for a more simple approach the Marine Biology Coloring Book. It is not a kids book, but has some good diagrams on a variety of molluscs.\n\nThere are a number of websites that have valid information as well. If you edit your questions, I can post some links to specific species informative web sites.
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There are edible land snails ranging in size from 1/4 inch to giant African snails growing up to 12 inches. The traditional escargot is the common garden-variety snail. Escargot (French for snail) are available fresh, chilled, canned, or frozen.\n\nI thnk the giant African snails might be the best.\n\nSnails are also popular in Portugal, where they are called "caracóis" (Portuguese for "snails"), and served in cheap snack houses and taverns, usually boiled with garlic. Traditional Spanish cuisine is very fond of snails ("caracoles"), too, consuming several species such as Helix aspersa, Helix punctata, Helix pisana or Helix alonensis among others. Small to medium size varieties are usually cooked in several spicy sauces or even in soups, while the bigger ones may be reserved for other dishes such as the "arroz con conejo y caracoles" (a paella-style rice with snails and rabbit meat, very popular in the inner regions of south-eastern Spain) or the many local versions of gazpacho (also a typical meal of meat and vegetables with pieces of unlevened flour cakes).\n\nI live in the Seattle area, slugs are abundant.  It is not exciting to me to eat what I have stepped on in my garden, will not come off until scrubbed with pine-sol!  But this comes out of the mouth aof a woman who loves Dungeness Crab (who eats junk off the bottom of the Puget Sound) so pay no never mind to what grosses me out.  \n\nI think prepartaion is what makes the flavor of the snail. You can buy platters in which to bake snails on.  Real butter seems to really enhance the flavor, garlic too.  \n\nHappy snail eating.  Or Slug munching. Ick.
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The moon snail is a large gastropod typically found partially buried in sand and mud beaches. It can attain a size over 5 inches in shell diameter and can extend a fleshy foot to over 12 inches in diameter. As large as this foot may seem, it can completely fit inside the shell after expelling considerable amounts of water\n\nWhere to find?\n\nLow tides in the spring and summer are the best time to look for moon snails. At this time, they come into shallow water lay their eggs. Moon snail egg cases, commonly called sand collars, appear to be thin pieces of rubber in the shape of a round collar. They are composed of snail eggs sandwiched between layers of mucus coated with sand.
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It's a Gastropod. A kind of sea snail.
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if I'm not mistaken,i saw on television some time back that it would be called gliding because a snail is considered to not actually touch the ground.this is because it actually deposits a thin layer of "slime"on which it "glides" (however slowly that may be) along the ground.hope this helps.
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They are different in structure and also in the way that gas exchange occurs. \nIn gills, the water flows in a single direction, and the blood flow in the blood vessels occurs in the opposite direction. Thus optimal gas exchange is achieved (there are good illustrations in textbooks to understand this better). However, to take up oxygen effectively, gills need an enormous surface area, because oxygen is relatively scarce in water. Thus, the gill lamellae are subdivided into smaller lamellae, and these in turn into even smaller projections; these extremely thin laminas are supported in water, but collapse onto each other in air, because of  surface tension and gravity. \nLungs can be of 2 types: the basic model comprises paired sacs, with more or less elaborate inner walls for greater surface area, but also with a surfactant substance that decreases surface tension so that these sacs do not collapse. The air goes in and out of the lungs by way of a single duct, thus there isn't a continuous flow of oxygenated air. Less efficient, but air has so much oxygen that it works anyway. The exception are the lungs of birds, in which the blood vessels are at right angles with respect to air flow, and the latter is continuous and unidirectional. \nAll respiratory surfaces need to be moist, and lungs are no exception. However, in this case the moisture is _inside_ the body, and the body surface is still mostly impermeable. \n\nThird choice... that would be perhaps the tracheae of insects. Aquatic arthropods have lungs of different types, and terrestrial chelicerates do have special gills too. But insects have a different system: ducts that pierce the body wall and project inwards, taking oxygenated air directly to the tissues (no participation of the circulatory system).
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between a rabbit and a what?\n\n*edited*\ndepends on what you are comparing it to.
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They're different animals; A turtle is like a tortoise, but turtles live in the water while tortoises live on dry land. A hare is a creature similar to a rabbit but it is both bigger and faster. A hare was probably chosen over a rabbit since hares are typically associated with going very fast, hence the phrase: He went haring round the bend.
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Depends on the rainforest animals that eat snails.
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octopus:  The big part is called the mantle.\nsnail:  The underneath is called the foot.
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which goes gaster--I donno what gaster means (-.-)\n\nJk, there is one type of worm that can roll into a tire shape and roll away, beating the snail, so the worm would win. *yay!*
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Mostly they are the shells of mollusks same phylum as clams scallops and snails.\nSome, startfish, sea urchins,  and sand dollars, are echinoderms.
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invertebrate\n\nmore info at\nhttp://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/WATER/U/ceriodaph.html
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Mollusks generally have:\n\n  - a muscular foot (or tentacle)\n  - a mantle\n  - a shell\n  - a body (digestive, excretory, reproductive organs)\n \nThey also often have:\n\n  - a gill\n  - a radula