Great pond snail
size:
up to 7 centimeters
color:
dark gray-brown, sometimes with yellow spots
age:
up to 2 years
food:
omnivores: plants, algae, carrion, living snails and insects
enemies:
parasites, ducks, fish
reproduction:
sexual and asexual (hermafrodite)
- Dut: Gewone poelslak
- Lat: Lymnaea stagnalis
- Eng: Great pond snail, Stagnant pond snail
- Ger: Spitzschlammschnecke
- Fre: Lymnaea stagnalis
- Dan: Stor Mosesnegl
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- Great pond snail, mating, foto fitis, sytske dijksen
Great pond snail
Great pond snails have lungs and need to surface regularly and take a breath. They eat just about anything they run into, even their own excrement. That sounds disgusting, but it means that they only waste 15% of what they eat. A pig wastes 6 times as much with its excrement! Pond snails are both male and female simultaneously and mate with another snail or with itself. The chains of eggs are attached to the underside of drifting leaves. After 10 days, the small snails hatch.
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See also
- Algae and seaweeds
- Ditches (ecology)
- Ducks
- Fish
- Freshwater biotope
- Freshwater snails
- Insects
- Lakes (ecology)
- Parasites marine fauna
- Plants
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