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Snails and Slugs: Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda. The Class Gastropoda (in Phylum Mollusca) includes the groups pertaining to snails and slugs. The majority of gastropods have a single, usually spirally, coiled shell into which the body can be withdrawn. The shell of these creatures is often what is recovered in a fossil dig.
Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusk that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell. Snail is a common name for almost all gastropod mollusks that have coiled shells in the adult stage.When the word is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails.dit Anatomy. The only significant morphological difference between the slug and the snail is the snailâs conspicuous shell. This shell is large enough for the snail to completely retract into for defense.