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Sea snail

A species of sea snail in its natural habitat: two individuals of the wentletrap Epidendrium billeeanum with a mass of egg capsules in situ on their food source, a red cup coral.
The shell of Syrinx aruanus can be up to 91 cm long.
A 50-second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium  stercusmuscaram) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico.
 A hermit crab occupying a shell of Acanthina punctulata has been disturbed, and has retracted into the shell, using its claws to bar the entrance in the same way the snail used its operculum.

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in saltwater, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

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