EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Snails and slugs are known as gastropods, which mean ‘stomach foot’. This describes the way in which the body and internal organs of slugs and snails has been twisted back so that the stomach lies above the large fleshy foot of these animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Word History The word gastropod comes from Greek and means “stomach foot, ” a name that owes its existence to the unusual anatomy of snails. Snails have a broad flat muscular “foot” used for support and for forward movement. This foot runs along the underside of the animal-essentially along its belly.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. gas·tro·pod ˈga-strə-ˌpäd. : any of a large class (Gastropoda) of mollusks (such as snails and slugs) usually with a univalve shell or none and a distinct head bearing sensory organs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gastropods (formally, Gastropoda) make up a large group (class) of molluscs. They have a muscular foot, eyes, tentacles and a special rasp-like feeding organ called the radula, which is composed of many tiny teeth.