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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 yellow snail was then named Cayo margarita after Jimmy Buffett’s famous song “Margaritaville,” which has long been associated with the Florida Keys.
Trochus (Margarita) Leach, 1819 (non Leach, 1814) Valvatella Gray, 1857 Margarites is a genus of sea snails , marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae .
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 ...
The “margarita” in the mollusk’s name is a reference to “the vividly lemon-yellow coloration that… Lose the shaker of salt: New species of sea snail, Cayo margarita, named with Jimmy ...
Phyllonotus margaritensis, common name the Margarita Murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [ 1 ] Description
Margarites helicinus, common name the helicina margarite or spiral margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae. [1]Margarites helicinus has been established by Phipps in 1774 and not by Fabricus in 1780 as Winchworth (1932), Sneli (1970) (and others) mention.