The soft part of the snail is usually gray or light yellow, light brown, and a few are white, light blackish brown. The shell part is of various colors and can be classified as black, white, yellow, orange, red, brown, green, gray and other colors, depending on the snail species.

I. Snail color

1. Soft body part

Snail soft body part is generally gray, light yellow or light brown (French snail), white (white jade snail), light black-brown (bright snail).

2. Shell Part

Snail shells can be of different colors, yellow, orange, red, brown, green, grey, black and white, depending on the species.

(1) Chinese snail: the surface of the shell is yellowish brown or yellow, with a light brown band around the periphery of the body snail layer, and a lighter color band in the lower part of each snail layer, near the suture line.

(2) Scattered snails (garden snails): the surface of the shell is yellow-brown and covered with small yellow-brown spots.

(3) Agate snail: the shell surface is yellowish brown with dark brown patterns.

(4) French snail (Grape snail): the surface of the shell is dark yellowish brown or yellowish brown along with multiple dark brown bands.

(5) Covered large snails: shell surface is creamy white or beige.

(6) Variegated high-waisted snail: the shell is white.

(7) Green Mountain Snail: the shell is green with a glazed luster.

Second, the shape of the shell of the snail

Different varieties of snails have different shell shapes.

1, China snail: shell medium large, shell thin and solid, low conical, 5-5.5 conchoidal layer, spiral part of the low, disc-shaped, the top of the shell, the suture line is obvious.

2, scattered large snails: shells are ovoid or spherical, shell texture is slightly thick, opaque, the body of the conch layer of special expansion, the spiral part of the short, shell surface has obvious threads and growth lines.

3, onyx snail: the shell is cone-shaped.

4, French snail: shell into a round ball, shell thick and solid, opaque, spiral part of the slow growth, low conical, body conchoidal expansion, shell top blunt.

5, cover large snails: shells are ovoid or spherical, shell thick and solid, opaque, the body spiral layer is particularly inflated, and tilted downward, the spiral part of the relatively small.

6, green mountain snail: shells are low conical, spiral downward, the bottom layer of the shell is wide, the top of the shell.