Athleta abyssicola (deep sea volute snail) 1 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Athleta abyssicola (deep sea volute snail) 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 | Athleta abyssicola (Adams & Reeve, 1848) - deep sea volute snail (abapertural view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA)This species is also known as Volutocorbis abyssicola.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.The deep sea volute snail 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, Neogastropoda, VolutidaeLocality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified------------------More info. at:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athleta_abyssicola |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-02 16:39:07 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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