Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater
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Glyphepithema alapapilionis (Röding, 1798)
Glyphepithema alapapilionis commonly known as the Hebrew Moon Snail, is a predatory sea snail.This sea snail is nocturnal. It can be found during the day in sandy bottom.
Sand collars are the characteristic egg masses of one family of sea snails, the moon snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae. These egg masses are often found washed up either whole, or sometimes in fragments, on sandy beaches where moon snails are living, either intertidally or subtidally.
Like other moon snails Glyphepithema alapapilionis is a predator and feeds on b shelled molluscs, bore a hole into the mollusc shell using its radula and a secretion.This species occurs in European waters and in the Mediterranean Sea.
Glyphepithema alapapilionis, commonly known as the Butterfly Moon Snail , lives on sandy or sandy-muddy bottoms.
Synonymised names
Cochlis alapapilionis Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)
Natica (Naticarius) alapapilionis (Roding, 1798) · unaccepted
Natica alapapilionis (Röding, 1798) · unaccepted
Natica plicifera R. A. Philippi, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Natica sagittifera Récluz, 1852 · unaccepted
Natica taeniata Menke, 1830 · unaccepted
Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798) · unaccepted
Glyphepithema alapapilionis commonly known as the Hebrew Moon Snail, is a predatory sea snail.This sea snail is nocturnal. It can be found during the day in sandy bottom.
Sand collars are the characteristic egg masses of one family of sea snails, the moon snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae. These egg masses are often found washed up either whole, or sometimes in fragments, on sandy beaches where moon snails are living, either intertidally or subtidally.
Like other moon snails Glyphepithema alapapilionis is a predator and feeds on b shelled molluscs, bore a hole into the mollusc shell using its radula and a secretion.This species occurs in European waters and in the Mediterranean Sea.
Glyphepithema alapapilionis, commonly known as the Butterfly Moon Snail , lives on sandy or sandy-muddy bottoms.
Synonymised names
Cochlis alapapilionis Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)
Natica (Naticarius) alapapilionis (Roding, 1798) · unaccepted
Natica alapapilionis (Röding, 1798) · unaccepted
Natica plicifera R. A. Philippi, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Natica sagittifera Récluz, 1852 · unaccepted
Natica taeniata Menke, 1830 · unaccepted
Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798) · unaccepted
