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The
largest known clam is a tridacna clam that weighed 734
pounds and was nearly four feet in length! That could
make a lot of clam chowder!
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The
largest Giant African Land Snail weighes about 2 pounds
(900g) and is 15.5 inches (39 cm) from head to tail.
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The
largest known snail shell is two and a half feet long
with a girth of nearly forty inches. This trumpet conch
(Syrinx aruanus) weighed nearly forty pounds when alive!
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The
smallest known adult snail shell is from Ammonicera rota,
0.02 inches in diameter. Fifty of them layed end-to-end
would measure one inch!
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Some
snails live in the top branches of trees!
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About
1,100 species of ocean mollusks live deeper than one mile
below the surface!
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Ewing’s
Gastroverm lives at an ocean depth of about 20,000 feet!
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