Gastropod

Natica pseustes

• Group: Other

A moon snail that hunts other molluscs across the seabed, it wraps prey in its broad foot and drills a neat round hole through the shell. Through that hole it rasps out the soft body of clams, limpets and barnacles.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Naticidae › Natica

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 569996.