Image of Petaloconchus montereyensis Dall 1919
Description:
These tiny snails, their tubes are only 1-2 mm in diameter, superficially look like tube-dwelling worms. They feed by extruding a plankton-entrapping mucus net that they later can ingest. Note the operculum used to seal shut their tube.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (biota)
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria (bilaterians)
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (Snails and Slugs)
- Caenogastropoda (Caenogastropods)
- Littorinimorpha
- Vermetoidea
- Vermetidae (worm-snails)
- Petaloconchus
- Petaloconchus montereyensis
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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