Gastropod

Niso venosa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A slender glossy snail of sandy and muddy bottoms, this species also turns up in mangrove forest. Eulimid snails like it live as parasites on echinoderms, feeding on the body fluids of sea stars and sea cucumbers.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Eulimidae › Niso

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 537114.