Can anybody please please tell me any relationship between slugs and snails...
2006-10-19 14:51:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
SORRY! I meant to say Slugs and SNAKES not SNAILS..
2006-10-19 14:52:12 · update #1
The major relationship between slugs and snakes is a predator-prey one. A number of species of snakes, including the common garter snakes, eat slugs.
Biologically, they don't have a whole lot in common. They are both members of the animal kingdom, but diverge at the phylum level (Mollusca vs. Chordata). Slugs have a lot more in common with, say, clams, than they do with snakes.
Snails, on the other hand, are closely related. Slugs are essentially shell-less land snails.
2006-10-20 15:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by Newton K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't have much in common, besides both being members of the animal kingdom. Biologists classify animals based on their relationships and similarities, first into large groupings called phyla and then into smaller & smaller subgroups. They have the slugs and snakes in different phyla, so that lets you know the biologists consider them to be very different.
They classify the snakes in phylum chordata, which includes all animals with a spinal chord -all reptiles, birds, mammals, and amphibians; and they group the slugs in phylum mollusca, along with oysters, snails, squids and octopi.
There are, of course, some similarities -both are legless and cold-blooded, as mentioned by other answers, and both of them have longish bodies. Both have eyes, stomachs, skin and some other such things but I wouldn't say that makes them closely related.
See the links below for further info.
2006-10-19 22:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Slugs and snails are very much alike, slugs and snakes are not very similar. The only similarity, internal or external, is that they move without legs. But even then snakes are much more efficient.
2006-10-19 21:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by Drolefille 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Differences: Slugs are invertebartes, snakes vertebrates. Slugs are mollusks, snakes are reptiles
Similarities: Both have no legs, both cold blooded, both have fangs (slugs do have teeth)
2006-10-19 22:19:46 · answer #4 · answered by • Nick • 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Slugs and snakes arent related in any way.
Slugs are invertibrates and are from:-
kingdom-animalia
phylum-mollusca
class-gastropoda
order-pulmonata
suborder-eupulmonata
Snakes are vertibrates and are from:-
kingdom-animalia
phylum-chordata
class-sauropsida
order-squamata
suborder-serpentes
2006-10-20 04:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by farhan ferdous 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are both cold blooded.
2006-10-19 21:56:12 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋