Gastropod

Megastomia eutropia

• Group: Other

This small snail belongs to a family of parasites that live off other animals. Most pyramidellids latch onto worms and molluscs, pierce the host's skin with a needle like mouthpart, and suck out its body fluids, and this intertidal species follows the same way of life.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Pyramidellidae › Megastomia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1701629.