DETERMINATION OF SOME HEAVY METALS AND INVESTIGATION OF NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION IN THREE SPECIES OF SNAILS (ARCHATINAFULICA, ARCHACHATINA MARGINATA AND LIMICOLARIAFLAMMEA)

📄 Project Abstract

Snail is a common name that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate, gastropod mollusce. Snail is also applied to most of the members of the molluscan class gastropoda that have a coiled shell large enough for theanimal to retract completely into. Snail is used in this most general sense; it includes not just land snails but also thousands of species of sea snails and fresh water snails. Snail-like animals that naturally lacka shell, or have only an internal shell, are usually called slugs, and land snails that have only a very small shell that they cannot retract into are often called semislugs. Snails are one of the earliest known types of animals in the world. They are able to adapt to a variety of living condition and they do not require large amounts of food. They have been able to continually evolve to survive the condition around them which many researchers find to be very fascinating. All snails are classified as mollusks because of the hard shell that prote...