Common Name: Starry Bottom
English name: Moon snail
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Naticidae
Size: 4 cm
place where the photos were taken: peninsula of Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines. This beautiful
Family: Naticidae
Size: 4 cm
place where the photos were taken: peninsula of Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines. This beautiful
naticide lives in the sand in shallow water, is small, bright orange color and its operculum is thick and chalky.
It feeds mainly on molluscs, who wraps his big foot from the typical white livery with dark spots.
uses a particular tactic of attack: once identified the prey, pierces one of the mollusk shells using its radula evolved into a sort of drill, with both acid secretion through a chemical action, either with a mechanical action by creating a small circular hole, through which sucks the delicious meat of the bivalve.
is thus explained why very often among the shells of shell beaches, if they can find some perfectly drilled.
uses a particular tactic of attack: once identified the prey, pierces one of the mollusk shells using its radula evolved into a sort of drill, with both acid secretion through a chemical action, either with a mechanical action by creating a small circular hole, through which sucks the delicious meat of the bivalve.
is thus explained why very often among the shells of shell beaches, if they can find some perfectly drilled.
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