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Calliostoma ligatum
Calliostoma ligatum
Blue Top Snail
Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0162 (2005-03-06)

Copyright © 2005 California Academy of Sciences

 
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  • date of photo  Jan 1984
  • latitude 36.54630   longitude -121.93121   max error distance 2866 meters     View on Google Maps.
  • horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984
  • georeferencing source GeoLocate
  • location   Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)
  • order Archaeogastropoda
  • class Gastropoda
  • habitat  subtidal
  • notes   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.
  • camera   Nikon in Oceanic Housing
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
  • common names   Blue Top Snail (photographer)
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