Red Sea Top Shell

Trochus erithreus

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small top shell of rocky intertidal shores in the Red Sea, it grips the rock with a broad muscular foot against the surge. Like other trochids it browses films of algae and detritus, and sometimes filters fine particles from the water.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 225666.