Nutrition
Triodopsis tridentata eat organic and inorganic materials
(Barker, 2001).
The main food source for snails are plants which makes them
herbivores (Barker, 2001). Outside
of eating plants, snails will eat fungi and other animal matter
along their path (Speiser, 2001).
Many snails search for food at night because locomotion requires
mucus which stays more moist at night than during the day (Atkinson,
2003). Terrestrial snails, like Triodopsis tridentata, use
their chemical sense organ to find food (Atkinson,
2003). Once the snail finds food it
uses its radula to scrape and grind the food (Atkinson,
2003). The radula, better explained under the
Adaptation page, is a rasping tongue like organ found in
most molluscs (Hickman,
2009).
Most snails house a single nephridium which serves as an
excretory organ, much like the human kidney, to digest their
food (Hickman,
2009).
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