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title: "I know it’s not a plant, but are these from garden snails? My toddler…"
description: "I know it’s not a plant, but are these from garden snails? My toddler has been having a great time collecting their little corpses…oops I mean, shells."
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author: "Yvonne"
published: "2024-10-25T17:48:03.088463Z"
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# I know it’s not a plant, but are these from garden snails? My toddler…

_Posted by Yvonne on 2024-10-25_

I know it’s not a plant, but are these from garden snails? My toddler has been having a great time collecting their little corpses…oops I mean, shells.

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## 3 comments

### Ezzeldin Yaqoub commented on 2024-10-25

Shells are the corpses of snails since they are born with the shell attached and die with the shell attached. Unless they are detached and eaten by a predator or the soft part of the body decomposed leaving the shell.

#### Yvonne replied on 2024-10-25

Huh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. Would you happen to know what type of snails these were?

#### Ezzeldin Yaqoub replied on 2024-10-25

Their disc snails, probably the rotund disc snail (discus rotundatus).

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