Indian Deep-Sea Mollusca. A specimen of Xenophora pallidula, from the Andaman Sea, 185 fathoms.... Among the dead shells used as a fortification are--(a) Pleurotoma congener, (b) Pleurotoma travancorica, (c) Pleurotoma carinata, and (d) Drillia captiva. The dead shells utilised as biulding-material are not stuck on indiscriminately, but are arranged along the edge of each whorl
Apical View of gastropod (top). Animal is known for its peculiar habit of cementing to its shell fragments of other shells, stones, bits of coral and coal as camouflage for protection from predators.
Description: English: Exhibit in the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Date: 17 March 2012, 01:28:40. Source: Own work. Author: Daderot.
