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This small cone snail is unusual, in that most cone snail species are tropical, whereas this species lives in the cooler, temperate waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, including most of the coast of California. [3] The range of this species is from the Farallon Islands near San Francisco to Bahia Magdalena, in Baja California, Mexico.
Cerithideopsis californica, common name the California hornsnail [2] or the California horn snail, [3] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae. [4] This series was previously known as Cerithidea californica .
Leucochloridium paradoxum, the green-banded broodsac, is a parasitic flatworm (or helminth).Its intermediate hosts are land snails, usually of the genus Succinea.The pulsating, green broodsacs fill the eye stalks of the snail, thereby attracting predation by birds, the primary host.
Euhaplorchis californiensis is a trophically transmitted parasite (TTP) that lives in the salt-water marshes of Southern California, United States. It lives in three hosts: shorebirds, horn snails, and killifish. As with many TTPs, E. californiensis modifies the behavior of the host to increase the likelihood of transmission to its next host.
Californiconus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.The experts at WoRMS place this group of species in the family Conidae, the cone snails, but some other experts placed previously the genus in a proposed family, the Conilithidae. [1]
Cone snails of the family Conidae are a diverse group of predatory marine gastropods, mostly tropical in distribution, which hunt and immobilize prey using a modified harpoon-like radular tooth that can deliver neurotoxic conopeptides. All cone snails are venomous, though the danger posed to humans varies widely by species.
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The arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus) is a species of true toads in the family Bufonidae, endemic to California, U.S. and Baja California state, Mexico. [1] [2] It is currently classified as an Endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because of habitat destruction. [1]