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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 ...
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 ...
Gastropods (snails and slugs) as the largest taxonomic class of the mollusca are very diverse: the group includes carnivores, herbivores, scavengers, filter feeders, and even parasites. In particular, the radula is often highly adapted to the specific diet of the various group of gastropods.
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 ...
Margarita schantarica Middendorf, 1849; Margarites kamchaticus ... Margarites schantaricus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family ...
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract