Re: Cowry? from Townsville, Queensland

August 21, 2007
From: Melanie Wood

Concerning message #20196:

Hi again,
I did try to find them a couple of weeks later to do exactly that but they went into hiding on me, I am hoping that I will be able to find them again at the next set of low tides.

On the bottom photo (the bottom animal) it is definitely a cowry (Cypraea arabica I believe) with its mantle across the top of the shell - there are a number of them in the area and there was a pair of them under the rock. The little nudibranch (?) was sitting above it for this photo but by itself for the top picture. However, the one above was definitely not a cowry as I did handle it to see. Hopefully next time I will be able to obtain pictures to ID.

Locality: Rowes Bay, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Intertidal muddy. Photographer: Melanie Wood.

Cheers
Mel

gizmel@yahoo.com

Wood, M. J., 2007 (Aug 21) Re: Cowry? from Townsville, Queensland. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20514

Dear Mel,
Thanks for your reply - glad to see what I thought was a cowrie was in fact a cowrie, but puzzled that the one above wasn't. Good luck with your next look in the mud

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Aug 21). Comment on Re: Cowry? from Townsville, Queensland by Melanie Wood. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20514

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