Which involves a large quantity of sea snails, land snails, and some freshwater snails. The snails within the clade Littorinimorpha include both herbivores and carnivores. Snails use a siphon within their shell to bring water in and out of there shell to determine what is nearby them and if it is safe (Seashells, 2017). The most prevalent littorinimorpha marine organisms we were able to observe throughout our class trips were:
1. Chestnut Cowrie (Zonaria spadicea)
The Chestnut Cowrie has a very smooth shell that is polished with a nice brownish black tint color. Furthermore, it was found in the mid and low tide zones where it feeds on other marine animals like sea anemones and snail eggs (Sept, 2002). This has by far been my favorite Littorinimorpha species because of its unique shell. http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/files/2013/05/clingfish-130501.jpg 2. Scaly tube snail (Serpulorbis