Snail roams without shell!

[Makaiveli]

?!?!?! :laugh:

it's neked! It's seriously streaking across my front glass. LOL. What's it think it's doing!? What if I have guests over.

 

[OrionGirl]

Probably not a snail, but rather a flat worm or type of nudibranch. There are some (stomapods? Maybe...) that have only a very small shell that is usually buried within the mantle. Snails are pretty firmly attached to their shells, and removal from them is fatal.

 

[dethjam316]

stomapods = family of the dreaded mantis shrimp...would be hard to confuse those with a nuidbranch or flatworm. probably a flatworm.

 

[mogurnda]

I'd bet on either a cucumber, sea hare (opisthobranch) or stomatella snail.

 

[OrionGirl]

Originally posted by mogurnda
stomatella snail.

Thanks--that's the word I was looking for. Stomapod--sheesh! What was I thinking? And actually--mantis are stomatopods...

 

[RTR]

Nudibranchs is likely the better term. Or you can think of the no-visible-shell types as SW slugs... 'Sea slug' is used as a common name perfectly acceptably.

 

[gbolton]

nudibranches and stomatella snails are completely different things. The term is not interchangable.

 

[mogurnda]

Yep. Nudibranchs have their gills on the outside (hence the name), while sea hares have a very small shell and their gills tucked in a mantle, and stomatella snails have decent sized shell that is hidden by the mantle. They all look similar on the outside, but aren't very closely related.

 

[Makaiveli]

The streaker

He looks nearly identical to an astreaus snail.

 

[Makaiveli]

the topside

hard to see, but yeah...he's either got a small hard shell, or none at all. i felt him, and he seemed hard.