Scutellastra cochlear (spoon limpet) 1 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Scutellastra cochlear (spoon limpet) 1 / James St. John
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Scutellastra cochlear (Born, 1778) - spoon limpet (interior view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA)This species is also known as Patella cochlear.The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores.Limpets are unusual gastropods - their shells are cap-shaped instead of being tightly coiled. Limpets frequent hard substrates in intertidal zones and are algae/biofilm grazers.The spoon limpet shown above is part of the South African Province: "The huge waves and cool waters of South Africa have produced a molluscan fauna dominated along its rocky shores by large limpets and abalones. Its beaches are often strewn with colorful, offshore cones, trochids and volutes. At certain seasons the cast-off egg-cradles of three species of paper nautiluses are found abundantly on some beaches." [info. from museum signage]Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, PatellidaeLocality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified---------------------More info. at:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutellastra_cochlear |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-02 16:49:47 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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