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An Atlantic Longarm Octopus Larvae, found in a tidal pool along the shore between Fisherman's cove and Hartlen Point, in Eastern Passage Nova Scotia. Thanks to Halifax Field Naturalists Facebook group for helping me identify it.

This small snail lives primarily a benthic existence on muddy substrates. It is sometimes found in large aggregations when mating and laying the balloon-like egg cases seen here. It may also be found swimming using its two lateral foot lobes, but it is not considered a truly pelagic species (see Wrobel & Mills, 1998).