Canal Monodont

Monodonta canalifera

• Group: Other

A top shaped snail of coral reefs and offshore rubble banks, it grazes from the high intertidal down into the shallow subtidal. Its sturdy, conical shell and rasping tongue suit a life scraping algae off rock.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Trochida › Trochidae › Monodonta

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 216316.