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Diet: This snail is a generalist grazer; gut contents showed that the digestive tract of all snails examined contained unidentifiable detritus and silt and sand, 94% contained unidentified filamentous red algae, 86% contained diatoms, 79% contained sponge spicules, 64% contained filamentous brown algae, 21% contained remains of hydroids, 14% ...
Margarita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae. [ 1 ] The name of this genus has become invalid as junior homonym of Margarita Leach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae ], a synonym of Pinctada Röding, 1798.
The purplish-pink shell is imperforate, orbicular-conical, thin and smooth, and is covered in fine pink or dark pink spiral lines. [1] There are four swollen whorls. The suture is scarcely impressed. The rounded-quadrangular aperture is angular above, and subangular at the base of slightly thickened and arcuate columella. The umbilico ...
The yellow snail was then named Cayo margarita after Jimmy Buffett’s famous song “Margaritaville,” which has long been associated with the Florida Keys. They’re also nicknamed “worm ...
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere for a new species of sea snail, Cayo margarita, whose name was inspired by the late singer Jimmy Buffett. The creatures, native to the Florida Reef, were named in a ...
Named Cayo margarita as a nod to Buffett’s song “Margaritaville,” the bright yellow specimen is a worm snail, a type of mollusk that sticks to hard surfaces within the coral reef and forms a ...
Margarita vorticifera Dall ... 1873) Margarites vorticiferus, common name the vortex margarite, is a species of sea snail, ... Description. The size of the salmon ...
Trochus (Margarita) hillii Forbes, 1850 Trochus (Photinula) expansa E. A. Smith Margarella expansa is a species of sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae .