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How fast do snails move?

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The word snail is loosely used for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the adult stage. (Those snails which do not have a shell or only a very small shell are usually called slugs.) Most snails move by gliding along on their muscular foot, which is lubricated with mucus. This motion is powered by succeeding waves of muscular contraction which move down the undersurface of the foot. This muscular action is clearly visible when a snail is crawling on the glass of a window or aquarium. Snails move at a proverbially low speed (1 mm/s is a typical speed]). They produce mucus in order to aid locomotion by reducing friction, and the mucus also helps reduce the snail's risk of mechanical injury from sharp objects.

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Garden snails travel at about 0.013 meters per second, or 0.0. mph. A banana slug has been tracked at the blistering speed of .00023 meters per second or 0.0005145 mph.

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the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1999. New Jersey: Primedia, 1998: 572.

said the a garden snail travels 0.03 mph

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There are about 60,000 species of snails and slugs and few of them or very fast. Some have been clocked at 0.03 miles per hour, however.

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a snail can travel 2.36 inches a minute. a snail can travel 2.36 inches a minute.

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1 mm per second.

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0.001 m/s

source: wikipedia

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snails riggels

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slow

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