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FAQs about Marine Snail Identification
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Anemone identification -09/01/08
Hi there,
In July this year I photographed this pair of anemones
<Mmm, no, not anemones...>
in about 30ft of water on a reef in North East Tobago. I have no idea of
their identity. Can you help please.
<They do look like Ovulids (Ovula sp.). Please scroll down and see the
pics of Ovula ovum on this page:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall.cfm?base=ovulids>
thanks,
Rob Jackson
<Ovula ovum is my guess.
Best,
Sara M.>
Re: Anemone identification - not
anemones, Ovulids 09/01/08
P.S. Oh, I might also note that many Ovulids eat soft corals
(so it might make sense that you find these on/eating a leather coral). :)
Best,
Sara M.
Re: Anemone identification... Ovulid et
al. input... -09/02/08
Indeed, I didn't want to say so, but I was thinking...
how could this picture have been taken in the "South Caribbean?" It must have
been taken elsewhere... either that or maybe there really are clownfish off the
cost of Kona... j/k lol ;)
-Sara M.
<Heeee! May be! BobF> |
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Re: Anemone identification
-Ovulids 09/02/08
Hi Sara,
You have introduced me to a whole new world with Seaslugforum.net Thanks
so much.
<Oh yes, it's a fabulous site! You're most welcome :)>
I am not a marine biologist, but dive a bit and it's great to find a new
link so I can find my own answers.
I have looked at lots of notes on Ovula Ovum and that's what is going on
the photo title. Bill Rudman seems to say that these Ovulids are not
common in the South Caribbean, so maybe he will be interested if I send
him the details.
<Yes. He might also be able to confirm the ID (or tell you if it's
actually some other Ovula sp).>
Thanks again,
Rob Jackson (from UK)
<De nada,
Sara M. (from Cleveland, OH)>
<<Ummm, methinks this pic got somehow mixed up with others... Neither
the egg cowry, nor the soft coral (looks like a Sarcophyton) occur in
the tropical West Atlantic... More like Indonesia, Malaysia, into the
eastern Indian Ocean... Bob Fenner>>
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Baby limpets? 8/31/08
Hi Crew!
<Hello!>
I need some help identifying some new occupants. I noticed the 3 of them last
night on the return nozzle. I've attached a couple of pics. Just a few
notes..about 6 weeks ago my limpets were doing their reproducing rituals..they
do this a lot. The only thing new I've added is some red Gracilaria. Also
recently I've seen white worms (about 1mm long) on the glass which I've never
seen before.
I did go through the snail ID and reproduction pages and it looks like they
could be baby limpets but from what I've read in the past the possibility of
that actually happening in an aquarium in very remote. Any help would be
helpful..thank you! Jennifer
<As for the worms, there are thousands, if not millions, of possibilities that
it would take a live specimen and a specialist to identify. As for the picture,
it does indeed appear that you have some young limpets- these little guys will
commonly show up in home aquaria, and rarely get very large.>
<Benjamin>
Re: Baby limpets? - 8/31/08
Thanks for the quick response, Benjamin.
<No problem!>
Sorry for the lack of info on the worms...I had read that snail eggs sometimes
look like worms crawling on the glass so I just was following that logic.
<Ahh, yes. I assume these are some sort of benthic invert, not spawn, and I by
no means meant to criticise your description! I couldn't do better myself,
really.>
Do you think these baby limpets were a product of the spawning limpets? Why
won't they get very big?
<Well, if they are the product of larger limpets, then they may become quite
large. As I can't say for sure what they are, this may be the case, but there
are also some very small, usually white limpets that are common hitchhikers into
aquaria.>
Thanks again. Jennifer
<No problem! Benjamin>
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