Snail

Truncatella subcylindrica

• Group: Other

This tiny truncatella snail lives at the edge of land and sea among salt marsh and shoreline debris, feeding on rotting plant matter and algae. As it matures it sheds the tip of its own shell, leaving a blunt, cut off spire.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Truncatellidae › Truncatella

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 141850.