Gastropod

Nerita atramentosa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A black shelled nerite that crowds intertidal rocks between the tide marks, most thickly around half tide and above. It grazes by night at low tide, rasping fine algae and detritus from the stone.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Cycloneritida › Neritidae › Nerita

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 713884.