Snail

Gastrocopta pediculus

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrocoptidae

A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Snail

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