Sea snail
Common name for snails that normally live in saltwater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about shelled gastropods that live in salt water. For the fish which are also sometimes known as "snails", see Snailfish.
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell.