Pustulatirus sanguineus (blood latirus snail) (Floreana Island, Galapagos) 1 (23942429343)

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Description: Pustulatirus sanguineus (Wood, 1828) - blood latirus snail from the Galapagos Islands. (apertural view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. From museum signage: "This world-record shell, a member of the Family Fasciolariidae, was collected at Punta Cormorant, Floreana Island, one of the Galapagos Islands. The coarse-looking shell measures 75.1 mm." Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae Locality: Cormorant Point, Floreana Island, Galapagos More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pustulatirus_sanguineus. Date: 4 January 2016, 12:27. Source: Pustulatirus sanguineus (blood latirus snail) (Floreana Island, Galapagos) 1. Author: James St. John.