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A 50-second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium stercusmuscaram) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. A hermit crab occupying a shell of Acanthina punctulata has been disturbed, and has retracted into the shell, using its claws to bar the entrance in the same way the snail used its ...
A very beach-worn shell of Conus ventricosus mediterraneus. Conus ventricosus mediterraneus is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [1] Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ...
Naticidae, common name moon snails or necklace shells, is a family of medium to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of the species in this family are mostly globular in shape.
As the veligers mature, they develop their first shell (the smooth protoconch) and turn into very small juvenile snails, at which point they sink to the ocean floor. As is the case in all shelled mollusks, the mantle is what secretes the shell; shell growth begins at what will later become the apex of the shell, and typically rotates clockwise.
Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails of the family Conidae. [1] Fossils of cone snails have been found from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs. [2] Cone snail species have shells that are roughly conical in shape. Many species have colorful patterning on the shell surface. [3] Cone snails are almost exclusively tropical in ...
In accordance with their history as an ancient food source in Atlantic Europe, they are harvested and consumed in the Azores Islands by the Portuguese people, where they are usually called búzios, the generic name for sea snails. The record for the farthest a human has spat a winkle was 10.4 metres by Alain Jourden (France) in 2006. [25]
The snails are a unique part of the neuston, organisms which live on or near the surface of the water, because of their relatively large size. They have veliger , or free swimming larvae, but the adults do not swim, and cannot create their rafts, except at the surface where air bubbles are available.
Urosalpinx cinerea, common name the eastern oyster drill, Atlantic oyster drill, or just oyster drill, is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.