Textile Nerite

Nerita textilis

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A rounded snail of the upper rocky shore, it sits high in the splash zone where few other grazers venture. Like others in its family it comes out at night on the low tide to rasp films of fine algae and detritus from the rock.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 216248.