Start here: Slug or Snail? 

Slugs have: 

• no visible shell or a small shell that cannot contain their body.

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Snails have:

• a coiled shell that can contain most or all of their body.

Continue to snails

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Slugs

Parts of a slug

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Common slug identification key

With visible shell

Without visible shell
1. Pneumostome in anterior half of mantle

2. Pneumostome in middle or posterior half of mantle.