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Slugs and Snails
Characterized by their shell and slow movement, snails are a common garden dweller and even a delicacy in some countries. Snails without shells are called slugs.
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Yes, if you are referring to a snails ability to give birth to live young. Also know as being ovoviviparous. The freshwater aquatic snail commonly named Japanese mystery snail or Chinese trapdoor snail, (Cipangopaludina chinensis) reproduces this way.
How do snails eat with their mouthparts?
Snails have a diet that consist of mostly plants although some species do eat smaller insects. Snails eat plants and insects with their mouths, as the first step to digestion, to obtain energy.
Yes, most pond snails eat elodea, or anachris. However, it usually depends on the species of snail. Land snails do not eat it, and most aquatic ones do.
Slugs come in a variety of colors. They can be green,Êbrown,Êyellow,Êcream, and many otherÊcolors depending on their environment.
Paua is the Maori word for a species of Abalone which is only found in the waters of New Zealand. The Paua is actually related to snails.
Pond snails are a type of gastropod (literally, "stomach foot"). They use their prominent tentacles located on their heads to detect smells in their surroundings.
If the mama snail dies and the daddy what will happen to the baby snails?
There is no parental care amongst snails. As soon as the eggs are laid the baby snails are on there own. Its really no big deal.
Occasionally, yes. There are existing articles which talk of slugs eating newly hatched monarch larvae, and I personally just witnessed a slug eating a freshly eclosed butterfly.
Snails like other invertebrates do not have spinal cord nor one single brain. Instead they have a set of ganglia (groupings of neurons) that distribute the control of the organism to different areas. For example a snail like other mollusk (phylum Mollusca) have a buccal ganglia to control the mouth.
What would happen to a mollusk if the cilia on its gills did not work?
The ciliary tracts of gills move strands of mucous with food particles attached to the mouth. From there, the food is moved by cilia to the stomach. So, if the cilia on the gills didn't work, the mollusk would not receive enough (if any) food. It would die of starvation.
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I find that my snails have urined once that I have actually seened them. One of my snails fell from the other onto a hard surface and when I quickly picked it up to make sure that there were no cracks in the snail's shell. There were none, but a yellow liquid oozed out of the snails shell. That is the closest to urine my snails have ever gotten.
If the egg clutch fell into the water for any length of time (more than a few minutes), the snail babies have probably drowned. Otherwise keep the clutch dry and near the water and they should be fine.
Can a snail survive cold temperatures?
Yes, snails can survive cold temperatures. The snails will stay out until the temperature turns to freezing then they will seek shelter.
How do giant African snails breath?
they breath through there feelers on there belly the side that is on the ground
More than likely you purchased a snail that had a few hitch hikers living with it, inside of it's shell. Baby mystery snails will bother the adults this way. Mysteries are not hermaphrodites there are male and females of the species.
