Pond Snail
Pond snails are found in the Class Gastropoda (“Belly foot”) along with slugs, limpets, moon shells, whelks and conchs. Gastropods began life in the ocean, some 500,000,000 years ago, plus or minus, and today’s representatives are found from deep ocean trenches to mountain tops and from deserts to mudflats to gardens. North America boasts more than 500 species of freshwater snails.