Probably never noticed in the approximately 20,000 teeth present in the mouth of the snails. We pass us next to us, but to other living beings may be a death sentence.
Garden snails have about 14,000 teeth. Yes, each. But other snail species can have up to 20,000 teeth.
In the case of the slugs, the number is even higher: Each has an average of 27,000 teeth. And according to, all this arsenal is not just there to decorate. It is even very useful to you.
Herbivorous marine slugs, for example, have Triangle -shaped teeth serials or sharp blades that are in your tongue. Serve you for Drill the hard cell walls of some seaweed and suck your sap. Deep down, they are essential to feed.
In the case of snails and carnivorous slugs, the teeth even function as cutting knives, which when not being used are “bent” in the tongue.
How many times have you seen a beach pierced shell with a circular dotvery well perforated, was it really meant to make a necklace? It was probably done by a mollusk. These use the teeth to suck the contents of the shells, which they feed.
Another example is nutmeg curls, which drinking blood from the rays, attacking them with their gadgets, with vampire attacks.
But the more deadly mollusc teeth prize goes to the Caracol Cone, One of the most dangerous marine animals. He has barbed and hollow, and even though they only attack in self-defense, he is poisonous enough to kill a human being. And worse, it really gets teeththrowing them as if practicing arc and arrow, and thus killing from a distance.
But don’t alarm. If you see a harmless garden snail, remember that it is one of the less teeth mollusks: a mere 14,000.
