What's this interesting beauty?

August 28, 2003
From: Gary Cobb


Hi Bill
Can you help me ID this little beauty?
Found at Vanuatu, [site: Hideaway 1]
depth:10m
lenth: about25mm
2 April 2003

There seems to be an interesting white line on it ... does this mean anything? Is the little critter infected? Sorry I did not get a better shot.

Thanks
Gary Cobb

gary@cobb.com.au

Cobb, G., 2003 (Aug 28) What's this interesting beauty?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10734

Dear Gary,
This is not a sea slug at all, but one of a family of snails [Ovulidae] which have large, often colourful mantle flaps covering much of the shell. The white stripe you inquire about is all you can see of the white shell, almost totally obscured by the black mantle flaps. It is probably feeding on the soft coral it is photographed on
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Aug 28). Comment on What's this interesting beauty? by Gary Cobb. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10734

Factsheet

Ovulids (False Cowries)

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