Family difference

Snails for the gastropods, lung snail subclass, snail family animals. Snails are gastropods, mesogastropods, snails.

Difference in Appearance and Design

The snail has a thicker shell, backed by a spiral pearl shell, a levitated body or levitation, and a more prominent head with two pairs of tentacles at the top. The appearance and color vary in size, the shell looks like a pagoda-shaped, gyro picture-shaped, conical, spherical, pipe thread-shaped and so on. The shell of the snail is thin, spiral in shape, and rotates in a left-handed direction. The shell ranges from light green to tan, with the color varying greatly depending on the conditions and the body of water, and is grayish on the inside. The top of the shell is sharper, the bottom of the shell is larger, and the mouth of the shell has an elliptical appearance, with a more detailed cuticle along its edges.

Difference in living natural environment

Snails love dark and moist, loose soil and humus natural environment, so the key to live in the mountain forests, bushes, plantations, vegetable gardens, courtyards, mountains, flat land, hilly terrain and other dark and moist areas, the most afraid of direct sunlight. The snail loves the sea with soft bottom mud, abundant bait and fresh water, and it is found in the water areas.

Carnivorous difference

Snails are omnivores, generally feeding on plant leaves and young leaves. The snail is omnivorous, key to aquatic flowers and young stems and leaves, algae plants, germs and organic chemical debris for food, but also filter-feeding some zooplankton, and favorite night activities and feeding.

The snail has a more sensitive, low conical shell, different kinds of shells have left or right rotating body, there is a remarkable head top, the head top has two pairs of tentacles, the latter pair of very long tentacles on top of the eyes, the ventral surface has a flat and spacious gastropods, move slowly, metabolism of mucus under the feet to reduce sliding friction to assist in walking, mucus is also able to avoid the damage of the small ants and other general insect species.

Snails generally live in more humid places, in green bushes to avoid direct sunlight. Snails living in cold areas will hibernate, in the subtropical type of life in the dry season will also be dormant, dormant state of metabolism out of the mucus to produce a layer of wet film closed shell mouth, the whole body hidden in the shell, when the temperature and humidity is suitable will go out to the theme of activities. Snail basically all over the world, different kinds of snail body size varies, African snail can be nearly 30cm, in the northern part of the natural type of general not on 1cm.