green-banded broodsac

Inside a square glass box, a snail was crawling slowly. It was an Amber Snail, a mollusc found commonly in china. Its preferred habitat are the dark and wet places like the drains. It also prefers heavy moisture but it can resist moderate heat and cold. It can also float on the surface of water. It feeds on decomposed material and young sprouts of plants like lichen, moss, mushrooms and so on. The shell of an amber snail can range from many different sizes but they are normally oval in shape. They have 3 to 4 whorls and they can be from 5 to 15 millimetres tall and 3 to 8 millimetres wide. Their shell is thin and the surface is usually yellow or brown in color. Their body is translucent or half-translucent.