Image de Tectura depicta (Hinds 1842)
Description :
Note the graze marks left by this little herbivorous limpet that lives only on eel grass, Zostera marina. In recent years this invasive species has wiped out most of the Zostera beds in Monterey Bay by grazing the leafs' epidermis with its chloroplasts and chlorophyll .
Inclus dans les pages suivantes :
- Life
- Cellular (Organismes cellulaires)
- Eukaryota (eucaryotes)
- Opisthokonta
- Metazoa (animaux)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia
- Spiralia
- Mollusca (mollusques)
- Gastropoda
- Patellogastropoda
- Lottioidea
- Lottiidae
- Tectura
- Tectura depicta
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Informations sur la provenance
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
- photographe
- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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