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Sea slugs & snails

Josephine's Moon-shell

Neverita josephinia

Also known as: Josephine's Moon Snail, Moon Shell, Moon Snail, Necklace Shell, Naticid Snail, Neverita Josephine

Egg
@Marrick · Royal Brayka Beach Resort, Egypt · April 20181 / 3
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Overview

Found over inter-tidal, to deeper sandy areas of reefs. They produce a collar-shaped egg-mass.
They feed on bivalves.

These are predatory sea snails that envelope their prey and then bore a hole through the shell using its radula, injecting an acid secretion. Once the shell is bored open, the proboscis is used to consume the flesh of the prey.
In the breeding season, the female moon snail lays a rather stiff egg mass which includes sand and mucus. These objects wash up on sandy beaches fairly often, and are known by the common name "sand collars" because of their resemblance to an old-fashioned removable shirt collar or false-collar.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Body shape
egg caseeggs

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Mediterranean
  • Country only · 3
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Found over inter-tidal, to deeper sandy areas of reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumMollusca
    3. classGastropoda
    4. orderLittorinimorpha
    5. familyNaticidae
    6. genusNeverita
    7. speciesNeverita josephinia Risso, 1826

    SourcesWoRMSWikipedia

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    More in the family

    Littorinimorpha