Grape Morula

Morula uva

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small predatory snail studded with dark beadlike knobs, the grape morula lives on reef flats, in tide pools and in sheltered lagoon shallows. It hunts other shelled animals, rasping or drilling through their armour to feed.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Muricidae › Morula

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 600713.