Sunday six pack
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fishmamma
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Originally Posted by DeJaCo
Can't say with absolute certainty - but that does look like a type of narcissus snail called a Super Tongan. I have like twenty and they only come up out of the sand to feed.
Could be a super tongan but actually looks a little smal IMO. Mine have larger bodies compaired to the shell and large trunks but looks similar for sure. :thinking: Is it usually in the sand bed? Tongans burrow and come up at feeding time.
Can't say with absolute certainty - but that does look like a type of narcissus snail called a Super Tongan. I have like twenty and they only come up out of the sand to feed.
Could be a super tongan but actually looks a little smal IMO. Mine have larger bodies compaired to the shell and large trunks but looks similar for sure. :thinking: Is it usually in the sand bed? Tongans burrow and come up at feeding time.
wax32
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That's funny, I was just on a page dedicated to the Buccinidae family of whelks when you said to check the hitchhiker thread! Leave it to me to over-complicate things. That snail is for sure a predatory whelk.
Misty, get that boy out of there.
Good catch fishmamma!
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Misty, get that boy out of there.
Good catch fishmamma!
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fishmamma
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https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=163703
First page, second or third post. The shell is different but the body looks right on.
First page, second or third post. The shell is different but the body looks right on.
wax32
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I am on a page right now looking at shells trying to see if I can come up with at least a genus for Misty's snail. I am guessing they must be common as I have a couple of hermits that live in shells similar to that one in the picture. The shells came with Calcinus elegans from the Indo-Pacific but now one of my Carribean Calcinus tibicen is living in one.
wax32
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If you'd like to look: http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_page...UCCININAE.html