Image of Blue Top Snail
Description:
Found on stipe of brown alga, depth 18 m. These snails graze on kelp and its encrusting organisms. Their sexual products are discharged into the sea where fertilization takes place. The resulting larvae metamorphose into adult snails.
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 ligatum (Blue Top Snail)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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