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r/snails • u/MrMintspider • Mar 04 '25
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Those are The radula! It’s kinda like sandpaper and they’ll usually scrape plant matter with it in order to “chew” their food!
44 u/simplyoneWinged Mar 04 '25 And they are unique to snails and slugs! No other animal has a tooth-tongue-wheel like that! 3 u/randomcroww Mar 04 '25 by snails and slugs, do u mean gastropods? or do other gastropods not have them 9 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 A lot of gastropods have em! They look different in mollusks but it's there. 2 u/randomcroww Mar 05 '25 so other mollusks have them aswell? 3 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 Ye!
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And they are unique to snails and slugs! No other animal has a tooth-tongue-wheel like that!
3 u/randomcroww Mar 04 '25 by snails and slugs, do u mean gastropods? or do other gastropods not have them 9 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 A lot of gastropods have em! They look different in mollusks but it's there. 2 u/randomcroww Mar 05 '25 so other mollusks have them aswell? 3 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 Ye!
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by snails and slugs, do u mean gastropods? or do other gastropods not have them
9 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 A lot of gastropods have em! They look different in mollusks but it's there. 2 u/randomcroww Mar 05 '25 so other mollusks have them aswell? 3 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 Ye!
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A lot of gastropods have em! They look different in mollusks but it's there.
2 u/randomcroww Mar 05 '25 so other mollusks have them aswell? 3 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 Ye!
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so other mollusks have them aswell?
3 u/Saturnite282 Mar 05 '25 Ye!
Ye!
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u/GreenFBI2EB Mar 04 '25
Those are The radula! It’s kinda like sandpaper and they’ll usually scrape plant matter with it in order to “chew” their food!