“The radula is used by both carnivorous and herbivorous molluscs to rasp fragments of food into their mouth – hence the Latin name ‘radula’ [which means] ‘little scraper ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of ...

These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport food into the snail’s mouth as it moves. Get a closer ...

These nudibranchs have a rough, tongue-like feeding structure called a radula. They use this to scrape their food ... It then uses an expandable hood that encircles its mouth to capture free-swimming ...

Most snails have thousands of microscopic tooth-like shapes on their ribbon-shaped, tongue-like appendage called the radula. Once food gets in their mouth, the snail’s radula rips it up like a ...