Gastropod
noun
A type of animal with a single shell or no shell and a muscular foot, they often live in water and land. Examples are snails and slugs.
One can often find various types of gastropods in the garden, such as snails and slugs.
Often appears as...
- marine gastropod
- terrestrial gastropod
noun
In the field of zoology, this term is used to categorize certain animals based on their similar characteristics.
In taxonomy, snails and slugs belong to the gastropod class.
Often appears as...
- gastropod fossil
- gastropod mollusk
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noun
A type of animal with a single shell or no shell and a muscular foot, they often live in water and land. Examples are snails and slugs.
One can often find various types of gastropods in the garden, such as snails and slugs.
Often appears as...
- marine gastropod
- terrestrial gastropod
noun
In the field of zoology, this term is used to categorize certain animals based on their similar characteristics.
In taxonomy, snails and slugs belong to the gastropod class.
Often appears as...
- gastropod fossil
- gastropod mollusk
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Variation
Gastropods can live in diverse environments, not just water or land.
The pond housed numerous aquatic gastropods.
Pro Tip 2/3Shell Presence
Some gastropods have shells, while slugs, for instance, do not.
Children enjoy collecting the colorful shells of gastropods at the beach.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Insects
Do not confuse gastropods with insects; they are a different class of animals.
Unlike the insects in the garden, the gastropods moved slowly due to their muscular foot.
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It's a great bird, and they used to nest in the thousands, thousands in the northern Everglades. And then they've gone down to about 400 nesting pairs today. And why is that? Well, it's because they eat one source of food, an apple snail, about the size of a ping-pong ball, an aquatic gastropod. So as we started damming up the Everglades,
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are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one deep-sea species that Deaver and her team have studied is the scaly foot deep seed gastropod also known as the scaly
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It's a great bird, and they used to nest in the thousands, thousands in the northern Everglades. And then they've gone down to about 400 nesting pairs today. And why is that? Well, it's because they eat one source of food, an apple snail, about the size of a ping-pong ball, an aquatic gastropod. So as we started damming up the Everglades,
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Diving 1000m Below The...
are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one deep-sea species that Deaver and her team have studied is the scaly foot deep seed gastropod also known as the scaly
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