Sea Snail

Smaragdia souverbiana

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small green snail that lives right among the seagrass it eats, it grazes the blades and the fine growth coating them. Its colour blends into the Zostera beds and intertidal sand and stones where it shelters.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Cycloneritida › Neritidae › Smaragdia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 140569.