Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of
articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Snail is
a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda
that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in a
general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater
snails. Otherwise snail-like creatures that lack a shell (or have only a
very small one) are called slugs.One species of land snail, the three
species of Giant African land snail, can grow to be 15 in (38 cm) from
snout to tail, and weigh 1 kilogram (2 lb).The largest living species of
sea snail is Syrinx aruanus which has a shell that can measure up to 90
cm (35 in) in length, and the whole animal with the shell can weigh up
to 18 kg (40 lb).
