Persian Conch

Conomurex persicus

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A conch of warm intertidal flats, it crawls across sand in shallow water along the coast. Like other strombs it grazes fine algae or swallows sand to digest the decaying plant matter within, and it is harmless to handle.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Strombidae › Conomurex

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 565371.