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Norrisia norrisii; Norris's Top Snail   

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Norrisia norrisii
Norrisia norrisii
Norris's Top Snail
Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0405 2335 (2005-04-30)

Copyright © 2005 California Academy of Sciences

 
INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
  • date of photo  between 1980 and 1986
  • latitude 34.00497   longitude -119.72547   max error distance 19344 meters     View on Google Maps.
  • horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984
  • georeferencing source GeoLocate
  • location   Channel Islands National Park (Santa Barbara County, California, US)
  • family Trochidae
  • order Archaeogastropoda
  • class Gastropoda
  • habitat  On brown algae
  • notes   These snails live and graze on kelp. This individual is climbing a giant kelp stipe. The live animal is red, though it's shell is in shades of brown.
  • camera   Nikon in Oceanic housing
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
  • common names   Norris's Top Snail (photographer)
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