Butterfly Moon

Glyphepithema alapapilionis

• Group: Other

A moon snail of soft seabeds, it is a patient carnivore that wraps itself around clams and other shelled prey. With its rasping tongue it drills a neat round hole through the shell to reach the flesh inside.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 571871.