Snail id

[Troylee]

Any idea what these are? Had a few pop up in my tank.. they have a little snout like a nassi but they stay on the rocks.. are they whelks?

 

[BryanM]

Not sure, but certainly could be.

 

[jabberwock]

Can you see any flesh? Leopard print = Whelk.

 

[Troylee]

Hard to tell.

 

[Troylee]

That’s as good as it’s gonna get! lol

 

[Troylee]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[jabberwock]

Whelk. Yank it.

 

[Troylee]

Whelk. Yank it.

I’ve found 3 of them.. no clue where they came from lol.. I threw them in the frag tank for now.. nothing but sps frags in it! No fish or clean up crew.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

A bit tough to see their shells under the stuff growing on them, but I'm inclined to say Euplica scripta:

Yeah, this is probably the Dotted/Lettered Dove Snail, Euplica scripta - it's a keeper if so:

Look up Euplica scripta (it has a lot of color variations, so look at a bunch of different images to compare with) and see if that seems to be a match.

Euplica scripta is apparently primarily a sea grass-epiphytic algae-eater;* so it feeds primarily on algae that grows on sea grass; interestingly, this makes them (and a few other common Columbellids) quite different dietarily than the vast majority of their relatives.**

Cool!

*Source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21002727 **Source:

Molecular phylogeny of Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) - PMC

The neogastropod family Columbellidae is a highly successful group of small, primarily epibenthic marine snails distributed worldwide and most abundant in the tropics. The great diversity of the group makes them attractive for studying evolutionary ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Troylee]

A bit tough to see their shells under the stuff growing on them, but I'm inclined to say Euplica scripta:

It does look like those! Okay cool.. there’s some better pictures at the top of the thread with a clean shell.