Sea snail

**Sea snails** are mollusks that make up a phylum of the Kingdom, Animalia (Animal). This phylum contains the most of the main/major characters and all of the other animals on the show.

## Characters

The characters who belong to this phylum are:

* Gary the Snail
* Prehistoric Gary
* Mary the Snail
* Thea
* Snellie
* Miss Tuffsy
* Dream Gary
* Larry the Snail
* Jerry
* Larry Luciano
* Esmerelda
* Alley snails
* Mary's ex-boyfriend
* Billy the Snail
* Bully snail
* Baby snails
* Dani
* Snail mom
* Orange snail
* The Snail that Keeps Barfing on the Floor
* Dave's snail
* Boogala Shrimp the Snail
* Walter Haddock
* Picture-framed snails
* Dave's snail
* Annette
* The Snail Who Shall Not Be Named
* Ghost snail
* Mavis
* Large snail
* Jellien Gary
* Mavis Jr.
* Viva
* Old Ironsides
* Mr. Buster
* Mrs. Buster
* Electric Ronnie
* Haibi
* Daniel the Snail
* Carmela
* Victoria the Snail
* Snail monster
* Ed the Snail
* Black snail (*Bad Luck Day*)
* Black snail ("One Krabs Trash")
* Muscular Gary
* Elderly snail
* Sea whelks
* Foofie
* Andy
* Party snails
* Obulax
* Henry the Snail
* Diane
* Tom the Snail
* Pat the Snail
* Rhonda
* Papa Dup
* Garibaldi
* Ava
* Brenda
* Cheryl
* Drake the Snail
* Lawrence Whelk
* Littorina
* Muffsies the Snail
* Pam
* Paul the Snail
* Sean
* Steve the Snail
* Ted
* Vince
* Louie

## Description

A sea snail in real life has a soft body that is usually protected by a shell. Most shells are spirally coiled while some sea snails, commonly called the impetus, have a conical shell. Sea snails are hard to be preyed because of their hard-protective tank. They are considered to be herbivorous since most of them feed on sea plants. A small portion, however, is omnivorous. A sea snail does not have teeth; its mouth consists of a hard ribbon instead of teeth. It uses this ribbon (a radulus) to grind and tear food. Sea snails move by their "foot" which is a muscular organ beneath their bodies. Their motion involves making ripping motion and leaving behind mucus that cover the area in which the snail is moving along. Moreover, these animals have gills that are situated in the cavity of the mantle that they use them for breathing.

Most sea snails in the series exhibit the characteristics of a real-world feline, in that they use "Meow"s as a means of communication. This is typically the only thing they can say. The only known snails who have the ability to speak normally are the alley snails and Mary's ex-boyfriend. However, Gary was able to say the words "no" and "Plankton" in "The Secret Box" and *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* respectively. He can also screech like a cat in numerous episodes. Another trait associated with snails in the series that is also associated with cats is that they loathe taking baths (except for Gary, who was scared at first, but started to enjoy them), as seen in "Gary Takes a Bath," "Shellback Shenanigans," and "Pet Sitter Pat."

### Diet

They are usually known to eaten food suited for them. Snail-Po is a popular example of this. However, there have been occasions where they have consumed foods meant for humans; the alley snails from the episode "Have You Seen This Snail?" are shown to like nachos, and Gary is shown eating cookies in the same episode as well as "Dumped." He also eats a potato chip in "I Had an Accident." Also, in several episodes, it is suggested that Gary chews up the sofa in SpongeBob's living room whenever the latter is gone for long periods of time and not around to feed him.