#trochus

However; may I humbly ask to be assigned a snail?

Enjoy my favorite picture of one of my snail hatchlings eating a cucumber, I’d love to see if you’d be able to identify the species (hint: they lay between 200-500+ eggs per clutch!)

Hocus pocus, you're now a...

Diagnosis: Trochus radiatus Common name: Banded Trochus

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AKA scorched monodont, spotted black topshell, and in te reo Māori pūpū, pūpū-mai, or māihi. Synonyms and previous binomials include Diloma gaimardi, Diloma (Melagraphia) aethiops, Melagraphia aethiops, Monodonta lugubris and Trochus bernardi, cingulatus, gaimardi, lugubris, sulcatus, and aethiops.

A small Trochid endemic to New Zealand, most often found in rocky intertidal areas, especially on open rock surfaces where it is the only trochid found. Also seen in sheltered areas, semi-exposed coasts and in harbours or estuaries where it co-occurs with Diloma subrostrata on hard packed mud among empty bivalve shells.

Most Trochids are intertidal or shallow subtidal herbivores, found on hard surfaces.

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Place of origin: Great Britain (?)

Date: first quarter of the 18th century

AKA pyram top shell. Their family, the Tegulidae, was formerly considered part of the Turbinidae, the Turban snails. The differences aren't obvious, especially if all you have is the shell.

A primarily herbivorous sea snail found in parts of the Indian Ocean, Indonesia to Japan, Fiji and much of Australia.