Red giant
The red giant is a big snail from the rainforests of India. Its soft body can be red, orange, yellow, cream or even black. Its shell is so thin and small that the snail cannot fit all the way inside it.
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Fun facts
Its shell is made mostly of a kind of protein and has very little hard chalk in it, so it is very thin.
It is the only kind of snail in its whole group. No other snail is quite like it.
It lives on the forest floor, but sometimes it climbs up into plants too.
It has been seen staying under water for about half an hour, just poking its feelers up above the surface.
Most asked questions about Red giant
?What colour is the red giant snail?
Its body can be red, orange, yellow, cream, white or black. The shell is brownish olive to black.
?Where does the red giant snail live?
Only in the rainy hill forests of the Western Ghats in India.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Indrella ampulla
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Ariophantidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Ariophantidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Indrella (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by L. Shyamal. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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