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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. They’re also nicknamed “worm ...
Margarita antarctica Lamy, 1905 Valvatella antarctica (Lamy, 1905) Margarella antarctica is a species of sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae , the top snails.
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 ...
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 ...
1 Description. 2 Distribution. 3 References. ... Margarita modesta Middendorff, ... Margarites schantaricus is a species of sea snail, ...
Margarites vorticiferus, common name the vortex margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Description