File:Crepidula fornicata (Atlantic slipper snail) (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) (25160291814).jpg

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Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic slipper snail in Florida, USA. (December 2013)

The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores.

The striped, blister-shaped object shown above is a Crepidula fornicata slipper snail. The surroundings include colonial tunicates, green algae, and stony corals. These organisms are encrusting a large Atrina pen shell that was beached on a marine shoreline in Florida.

Slipper snails are unusual in that they are non-fixed encrusters and lack a strongly coiled shell.

Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Calyptraeidae

Locality: Fishing Pier beach, northern shoreline of the eastern end of Sanibel Island, southwestern Florida, USA

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_slipper_shell" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_slipper_shell</a>
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Author James St. John

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