IZ MOL 876994 Apical
Description:
Apical View of gastropod (top). Animal is known for its peculiar habit of cementing to its shell fragments of other shells, stones, bits of coral and coal as camouflage for protection from predators.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Caenogastropoda (An order of snails)
- Littorinimorpha
- Xenophoroidea
- Xenophoridae (carrier shells)
- Xenophora
- Xenophora pallidula (pallid carriersnail)
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- cc-0-1.0
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- Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Invertebrate Zoology
- creator
- Paul Greenhall
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