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Blood-stained Frog Shell

Lampasopsis cruentata

Also known as: Frog Shell, Frog Snail, Bursa cruentata

Adult
@fishx6 · Lembeh Resort, Indonesia · August 20081 / 3
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Overview

Found in caves, or beneath dead corals, around bommies, over coral and rocky reefs. Shells are often heavily encrusted.

Frog shells are often heavily encrusted. When reproducing they lay long upright capsule like eggs which they sit on to protect until they hatch.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found in caves, or beneath dead corals, around bommies, over coral and rocky reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumMollusca
    3. classGastropoda
    4. orderLittorinimorpha
    5. familyBursidae
    6. genusLampasopsis
    7. speciesLampasopsis cruentata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1835)

    SourcesWoRMSWikipedia

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    More in the family

    Littorinimorpha