Sunbathing Snail
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
Sunbathing Snail
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonategastropod 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. When the word "snail" is used in this most general sense, it includes not just land snails but also numerous species of sea snails and freshwater snails. Gastropods that naturally lack a shell, or have only an internal shell, are mostly called slugs, and land snails that have only a very small shell (that they cannot retract into) are often called semi-slugs.
Snails have considerable human relevance, including as food items, as pests, as vectors of disease, and their shells are used as decorative objects and are incorporated into jewelry. The snail has also had some cultural significance, and has been used as a metaphor.
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