Desetang's Mitre

Scabricola desetangsii

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A carnivorous mitre snail of intertidal flats, it hunts among sand and rubble for prey like marine worms, drawing them in with a long proboscis. Family members are active predators rather than grazers, and it is harmless to divers.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Mitridae › Scabricola

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 217209.