#moon snails

[samspicturesandwords]

Moon Snail

[rattyexplores]

Moon Snail found foraging in the sand.

09/09/23 - Caenogastropoda: Conuber sp.

QLD:BRB - Clairview, beach

[antiqueanimals]

Seashells. Written by Gina Ingoglia. Illustrated by James Spence and Earl Parker. 1994.

[freelancecrier]

🙄I'm trying to escape🏃becoming someone's next meal🍴but I'm 😫😫😫dummy thicc😫😫😫and the clapping👏of my sneeks (snail cheeks) keep alerting the snishermen🎣 (snail fishermen)

[pacifirim]

Look at these moon snails, beautiful and perfect

[mondaymorgue]

Oval Moon Snail (Polinices mammilla) Tanjung Rimau, Sentosa, 24th July 2016

Animals & Plants of Singapore

The Digital Nature Archive of Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets

The Tide Chaser: Moon Snails (Phylum Mollusca: Family Naticidae) of Singapore

A preliminary checklist of the Molluscs of Singapore

The intertidal molluscs of Pulau Semakau: preliminary results of "Project Semakau"

Shell-bearing gastropod molluscs of the Singapore Strait

Marine Flora and Fauna of Ranong, Thailand

OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1

SeaLifeBase

[harborwildwatch-blog]

Did you know that a lot of people think this is garbage?

These are actually moon snail eggs! Formed around a female moon snail, they are made of sand, mucus, and millions of tiny eggs. Once they hatch, this ring disintegrates. Only a few of these moon snail eggs will survive to adulthood.   

[themagnificentmags]

Today on "I can't do a project on an animal without finding it cute": Moon Snails.

[cutthroatchorus]

ATTN ABBEYKIMMY

instead of cuttlefish, i am doing my spring research project on moon snail feeding behavior.

[samspicturesandwords]

Moon Snail

[metasepiapfefferi]

Marine Facts with Emma #33

Moon snails have fleshy, slimy, mantles that can actually cover their shells completely. This is to prevent sea stars from getting a grip on them to turn them over and eat them.

[minfotibaken]

This is a moon snail egg. And one of the coolest eggs I have ever seen, as well. And they have a cool scientific name: Lunatia Heros.

[deadlegsmel]

I have heard this referred to as 'shark poo' as well as numerous other things - I know people destroy them and throw them, but have you ever wondered exactly what it is?  In fact, this is an egg mass.  Inside are hundreds of developing snails, moon snails (Polinices sordidus), which are awesome gastropods.  When it lays the eggs, the sack reacts with seawater to look like this, the larvae on the outside develop faster than the ones in the middle - which are in a type of 'stasis' until it gets smaller and the oxygen reaches them.

Photographer: Melanie Wood

[comingupfromsleep]

it looks like a little town on the ocean.

[capecodartandnature]

she paints sea shells by the sea shore...

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