Crepidula adunca; Slipper Snail; <small>(shown with Calliostoma canaliculatum, the host snail, 25 mm high.)</small>

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Crepidula adunca; Slipper Snail; (shown with Calliostoma canaliculatum, the host snail, 25 mm high.)

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Crepidula adunca
Slipper Snail
(shown with Calliostoma canaliculatum, the host snail, 25 mm high.)

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

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0163 (2005-03-06)

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date of photo May 1985

latitude 36.81856 longitude -121.79270 max error distance 26012 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

order Mesogastropoda

class Gastropoda

habitat Subtidal on shells of larger snails

notes Here are two single males and a mated pair (younger male on older female) atop their host snail. Slipper snails are filter feeders and sequential hermaphrodites, first male, later female. There is no free-living larval stage; juveniles are pushed out from beneath their mother's foot. Depth 10 m.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Slipper Snail (photographer)

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