2006-11-25 07:48:14 · 18 answers · asked by milopoo2 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
have,nt a clue.. but i got a story about a slug/snail.. dad goes to put the rubbish out one morning, dolly, he shouts to my mum, theres a cloth's peg on the step covered in salt,, Mum..daft bat thought it was a slug, yes she is half blind
2006-11-25 08:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by valda54 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Classification of organisms come under seven headings:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
For example, humans and snails are in the same kingdom, the Animalia kingdom, but we split at the Phylum branch, and split even further after that. Just picture it as a tree.
Well snails and insects are in the same kingdom, the Animalia kingdom, but they're in a different phylum to each other. Snails are in the mollusca phyla, while insects come under the phyla of arthropoda. So they're under the same kingdom category, but not the same phylum.
2006-11-25 08:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by Katri-Mills 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insects are in the class Hexapoda, 6 legs so right off the bat you can see why a snail doesn't fit in this group. Snails are in the class gastropoda, they do not have any legs.
2006-11-25 08:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by crazy.carabid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, snails are molluscs. I think Mollusca is a phylum, whereas insects belong in the phylum Arthopoda (sp?). Spiders are considered insects, but I don't think they are in the same family as 6-legged insects. It's easy to research this question online.
2006-11-25 13:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only snails that come under the insect category are those whose bodies are divided into three segmenat and which have six legs. Otherwise, it's an elephant, or something.
2006-11-25 07:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Barks-at-Parrots 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Snails are:
Mollusca :
Class Gastropoda ( snails, sea slugs)
Insects are:
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) - a name that refers to the jointed limbs. The other major Classes of living arthropods (i.e. animals related to insects) include the Crustacea (crabs, lobsters, shrimps, barnacles, woodlice, etc.), the Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes, etc.) and the Arachnida (scorpions, king crabs, spiders, mites, ticks, etc.). In addition there are several minor Classes, the Onychophora (velvet worms), Tardigrada (water bears), Pentastomida (tongue worms) and Pycnogonida (sea spiders),
2006-11-25 08:07:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snails are Molluscs. Insects have three segments to the body (head abdomen thorax), three pairs of legs and and chitinous exo-skeleton. Snails have none of these.
(Mollusc is the phyla, moving down to the level of class snails belong to the class Gastropoda)
2006-11-25 08:07:33 · answer #7 · answered by Bill T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they fit in a group of invertabretes called mollusks. Generally what defines an insect is having six legs and 3 segments to there bodies the head, abdomen, and posterior. Hope this is helpful.
2006-11-25 09:14:27 · answer #8 · answered by ossifer8301 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A snail with 6 legs? I don't think so.
It's a gastropod.
2006-11-25 08:03:53 · answer #9 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no according to d classification of living things it is classified as a mollusca under classification of living things in biology
2006-11-25 07:54:40 · answer #10 · answered by Maro E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋