Snail | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 10/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Snail


00:00:59 1 Overview
00:03:44 2 Types of snails by habitat
00:03:54 3 Slugs
00:05:25 4 Human relevance
00:05:43 4.1 In agriculture
00:06:42 4.2 As food
00:08:46 4.2.1 Famine food
00:09:10 4.3 Cosmetic
00:09:35 4.4 Cultural depictions
00:09:44 4.4.1 Symbolism
00:10:14 4.4.2 Divination and other religious uses
00:10:43 4.4.3 Love darts and Cupid
00:11:05 4.4.4 Metaphor
00:11:32 4.4.5 In Indonesian mythology
00:12:07 4.5 Textiles
00:12:41 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod 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.