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It's a Babylonia for sure. They generally scavenge, but are capable of killing, especially vulnerable things like baby tridacnids. If you don't...
Sorry, pagojoe has been on vacation! There are actually a couple of Florida species that have been accused of eating or at least tasting of soft...
Wellll..it's probably a coral-boring bivalve. The most common are the Ark Clams (family Arcidae, genus Arca, Acar, or Barbatia), but I can't see...
I think the softness may be due to the overgrowth. It's shaped like an Ark Clam, and appears to be embedded into the rock the same way an Ark Clam...
They swap shells a lot. Several times I've found hermits in shells that still housed the live snail, just drawn way back up in the shell. I've also...
Sorry, the rest of the posts just loaded. I see the explanation now :)
I'd say the chances of finding live coral a mile above sea level was pretty unlikely, lol. Maybe I'm misreading the post? It looks like a gerontic...
Good detective work, Corailline. You probably found it exactly, although it might be a close relative. Hard to tell much about the shell...
Scypha sponges (Pineapple sponges). They are harmless. Don
So..are you guys saying you think it's a Stomatella?? lol
By the way, Cheryl...you may already know this, but, every animal in Japan has an official Japanese common name...so, you get official common names...
OK....so I guess this is Kalinga ornata. It's apparently a polycerid, but pretty amazing behavior to look so closely related to the sponge eaters:...
I'm a seaslug fan, but that's got to be the wildest nudi post I've seen this year....maybe ever! Don
Did it look like a snail on the bottom? If it's not a solitary Fungia species, it's probably one of 4 or 5 different families of snails that are...
Size seems to be the most important factor. Large brittlestars (like, 6 inches or more, spread out) may kill shrimp, crabs, or fish, and sometimes...
No prob, and of course they are closely related and behave essentially the same as the Collonista/Homalopoma snails. Cheers, Don
Well, 40mm would be a giant. Most of them are less than 25mm. Although at least one of the examples of T. brunneus depicted as that species on...
No problem! Thanks Salmo and Vinny
Hey Swiss, Yours probably aren't C. costulosa, since that species only reaches about 4 mm. There actually are a couple of species in the...
Hmm, can't see the ribs well enough to know if that's a wentletrap or something else like a rissoid. I've seen lots of species of them, in several...
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