Image of Jeweled Top Snail
Description:
This top snail was photographed on a blade of giant kelp, a common site for the species. As an omnivore it is known to feed on the kelp, but if also could have been feeding on the adjacent bryozoan. Note that it is covered with barnacles.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Vetigastropoda
- Trochoidea
- Calliostomatidae
- Calliostomatinae
- Calliostoma
- Calliostoma annulatum (Jeweled Top Snail)
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- 2006 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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