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How to distinguish between female and male snails?

Snails are gastropods that like to live in waters that are warm in winter and cool in summer, with soft bottom, abundant bait, and fresh water. They especially like to gather in places with slight currents. Snails have a varied diet, mainly eating tender stems and leaves of aquatic plants, organic debris, etc. Snails like to move and feed at night, and the most suitable temperature for their growth is 20-27℃. They are distributed in most parts of the country and can be caught in summer and autumn. Common freshwater species include Chinese round snails. So how do you distinguish between female and male snails?

First of all, in terms of shape, the male snail is smaller than the female snail, and the shape of the male snail is thinner than the female snail, while the female snail appears relatively rounder and larger.

The second is the tentacles. When the snails are in stable waters, they will extend their tentacles outward. The tentacles of male and female snails face in different directions.

The right antennae of the male field snails are bent in the same direction, that is, to the right. In this way, the male and female field snails can be distinguished by leaving them in the water for a while and waiting for them to extend their antennae.

Additional information

The snail is an ovoviviparous animal with a unique reproductive method. The embryonic development and the development of the snail's young are completed in the mother's body. It takes about a year for the fertilized eggs to be produced in the mother's body. The snails produce eggs in batches and begin to reproduce from March to April every year. While producing young snails, the female and male parent snails mate and fertilize, and at the same time, the young snails to be produced the next year are bred in the mother's body. A female snail produces about 100 to 150 young snails throughout the year.