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A stomach wearing a shoe, dragging its house to dinner forever.
means The huge class of mollusks—snails, slugs, limpets, and their kin—that creep along on one muscular foot, most carrying a single coiled shell.
from From Greek gaster ('stomach') plus pous/pod- ('foot'), coined in scientific Latin because the animal's broad, flat foot sits directly beneath its gut—anatomically, it really does walk on its belly.
- name meaning
- literally means stomach-foot in greek
- teeth count
- some have over 25000 on one tongue
- group diversity
- includes snails, slugs, and sea butterflies
- shell optional
- slugs are just gastropods that gave up housing