Unresolved Can you ID my snail?! Has orange proboscis, from Florida keys rock

Discussion in 'ID This!' started by cybe, May 10, 2011.

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  1. cybe

    cybe Plankton

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  2. Gresham

    Gresham Great Blue Whale

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    can you turn it over for a bottom profile. The "hole" is an ID point :D
     
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  3. thepanfish

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    Young conch, most likely a young crown conch, 90% sure.
     
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  4. cybe

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    Someone on my local forum guessed Whelk, so I figure I'd share that in the thread for the next passer-by.
     
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  5. pagojoe

    pagojoe Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    It's Stramonita haemastoma floridana, or Florida Rock Shell. It's in the murex family, and is predatory on other molluscs:

    Stramonita haemastoma floridana

    Cheers,



    Don
     
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  6. cybe

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    Nailed it :)
     
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