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The average snail is 2-5 cm, not 5-9 cm. Just sayin.
by dmd 2y ago
The average snail is 2-5 cm, not 5-9 cm. Just sayin.
- ygra 2y agoPerhaps they meant slugs. In German at least, both are called Schnecken (just one is naked), so perhaps that persists in other languages as well.
- mkl 2y agoI think it's more likely different species in different places. I, in NZ, don't think I've ever seen a slug as much as 5cm long, let alone 9cm.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoLook up banana slug. Common where I live.
- card_zero 2y agoI'm guessing much, much smaller than that, taking microsnails into account. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-the-worlds-tiniest-snail https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-the-worlds-tinie... But let me just add up their lengths, along with the lengths of all giant african land snails and all other snails, and divide by the total number of snails in the world ... is there a statistical trick that could answer this, like the one for counting undiscovered species? Probably not.