Shelled Gastropod: A Small Leaf Snail | 10% to shy-fox

Although, It's cloudy day, we managed to make a short trip to the forest as I had nothing to do at home during the weekend. I wish I could find some interesting subjects in the spot that I often visited but I got nothing here. We decided to head to another spots, we passed the muddy mountain roads and challenging tracks until I arrived at the new spot. There, as I used to do, searching and searching and my friend noticed this little snail was hibernating on a green leaf.

Without wasting time, I tried to take its pictures from different angles while it's still calm. It is called leaf snail, a mollusk animal that spends a lot of time on the leaf. At glance, it was like playing dead, but when I moved the leaf, it woke up and show itself to my camera. Since it did not make a move, I decided to capture these photos with DSLR.

I noticed from a close range, it was making move by a single muscular ‘foot’, lubricated, trying to avoid my shots. So, I had to find some good shots before the dark. Snail is gastropods, the mollusk with a single shell and soft body. It is actually a common pest in the garden, in the woodland. Even it may be slow but it can quickly crash the plants.

A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.source

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Camera	Nikon D7000
Category	Gastropod Photography
Lens	Tamron Tele-Macro 70-300