Recluzia Snail

Recluzia lutea

• Group: Other

This violet snail spends its life adrift at the surface, hanging beneath a raft of bubbles it builds from trapped mucus. Storms wash live specimens onto beaches, and the shell is light enough to keep the whole animal floating upside down on the open sea.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Caenogastropoda incertae sedis › Epitoniidae › Recluzia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1035950.