Mollusca
No, a snail is a gastropod.
The only extant cephalopod that produces an external shell is the chambered nautilus. The shells produced by squid and cuttlefish are internal.
Its neither.Its actually a Gastropod.
A chambered shell
No. It is a cephalopod that lives in a spirally chambered shell.
A snail is a gastropod. Gastro is latin for stomach. Pod is latin for foot. Meaning...stomach-foot. Which is accurate since a snail slides around on their stomach, also making that their foot.
It is a cephalopod that has a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.
Various types of shells can be found in the ocean, including gastropod shells, bivalve shells, and cephalopod shells. These shells are created by different types of marine animals and come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and colors.
A cephalopod with an external, spiral shell; living in tropical seas.
There are three main classes of mollusks: Gastropoda (snails and slugs), Bivalvia (clams, mussels, oysters), and Cephalopoda (octopuses, squids, nautiluses). Each class has unique characteristics and habitats.
"Sailor" is the meaning, as it was once thought that the cephalopod used its webbed arms as sails.