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Serpulorbis squamigerus
Scaled Worm Snail
(shown with Bryozoan)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0505 0479 (2005-05-06)

INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO

date of photo between 1980 and 1986

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Vermetidae

order Mesogastropoda

class Gastropoda

habitat Low intertidal/subtidal

notes These sessile snails are living in their calcareous tubes on a municipal whart piling. They feed by extruding a veil of plankton-entrapping mucus, later to be ingested.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Scaled Worm Snail (photographer)

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