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Haeckel (left), 1866 Sea snail shells, Kunstformen der Natur, 1904. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many ...
Conus sanguineus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [1] These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans. Commonly, they are known as cone snails.
Mitra is a large genus of medium to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mitridae, the miter shells or mitre snails. [ 1 ] This genus is named after the ecclesiastical headgear, the miter , because of the shells' general shape.
Euspira heros, the northern moon snail, is a species of large sea snail in the family Naticidae. [3] This large snail is rather uncommon intertidally, but is much more common subtidally . This species, like all moon snails, feeds voraciously on clams and other snails.
Macrostormbus costatus dorsal view of adult shell. Colored drawing of a Aliger costatus from Kiener, 1843. Macrostrombus costatus, formerly known as Strombus costatus and Lobatus costatus, or commonly known as the milk conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. [2]
Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, [2] is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.. This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic. [1]
Xenophora, commonly called carrier shells, is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier snails or carrier shells. [2] The genus Xenophora is the type genus of the family Xenophoridae.
Volutidae, common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm. They are marine gastropod mollusks . Most of the species have no operculum .