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Laying eggs

Identified by Platon Vafiadis.

camera light and arm reflection in shell.

24mm

Port Hedland WA - Thompson Street
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Caenogastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
Superfamily Conoidea
FAM Conidae
Conus victoriae
Reeve, 1843

Port Hedland WA - Finucane Island
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
FAM Muricidae

Southern Baler Eating Turban Shell

night dive

Snorkel fringing reef.

Pictured at night in 6-9m of water on/around seagrass beds, sand flats and low profile limestone reef.

Port Hedland WA - Cemetery Beach
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
FAM Muricidae
Chicoreus cornucevi
laying eggs

Lab photo of 124.5mm hybrid Lambis crocata x scorpius.

Photographed by Martin Pritchard in the intertidal zone off Entrance point. ID by Dr. Lisa Kirkendale from WA Museum.

Port Hedland WA - Lacy Street
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Littorinimorpha
Family Naticidae
Tanea sagittata

Port Hedland WA - Cooke Point CP
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
Superfamily Conoidea
FAM Conidae
Conus trigonus

Port Hedland WA - Cooke Point CP
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
Superfamily Conoidea
FAM Conidae
Conus trigonus

Port Hedland WA - Cooke Point CP
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Neogastropoda

FAM Volutidae
Amoria damonii
Gray, 1864

JAMSTEC/ Ocean Census, R/V Kaimei, KM#271Mo01, ~ 397 m, shell length ~1.7 cm

JAMSTEC K/V Kaimei, CRAMBON, 520.5 meters

En mi colección. Recogida muerta en Febrero 2024

24cm shell length

~65mm TL

Port Hedland WA - Rec Centre (Keesing Street)
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Littorinimorpha
FAM Cypraeidae
Cribrarula exmouthensis ssp. magnifica

Egg sac with shells inside. Amazing such little shells/snails can become the largest gastropod in the world.

Observation courtesy of John Hartley and Tina Horton.