Gastropod

Monodonta vermiculata

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A top shell of rocky intertidal shores, it clings to stone where the waves break and the tide rises and falls. Like other trochids it browses on algae and detritus, scraping the film of growth from the rock with a rasping tongue.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 546927.