Snails are classified as invertebrates and mollusks. Refer to the About.com link, below, for further information.
it is a fish, which includes snails, octopuses, and squids.
what is the taxonomy classification for snails
Stylommatophor, however this classification level is as yet unassigned (it is not officially a family) but the term pulmonate is used to refer to air-breathing land snails. via http://animals.about.com/od/mollusks/ig/World-of-Snails/Snail-1.htm
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals) Phylum: Molluska (Mollusk) Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods) Order: Stylommatophora (Terrestrial Snails and Slugs)
A chonchologist studies shells, particularly mollusk shells such as snails, clams, and cephalopods. They may focus on the classification, morphology, distribution, and ecology of shells.
There are about 2,000 varieties of 'common clams'! However, they all belong to the mollusca phylum and the bivalviaclass.
Apple snails are freshwater aquatic snails. Garden snails are land snails.Apple snails have lungs and gillsGarden snails have lungs onlyApple snails skin is thin and translucent (with slime)Garden snails skin is thick and leathery (with slime)All apple snails have two sets of antennaeGarden snails have species with one and two sets.
water snails but not regular snails
Sea snails Freshwater snails
Apple Snails will eat other snails if you don't feed them. If you feed them, then they are alright.
Snails do not have bristles. Snails do have a raspy tongue though.
no snails are not harmful.