Colours

Distinguishing features

Its color can vary from very dark to a pale pinkish white. The shell is thin, globose and fragile. The last whorl covers the rest of the whorls. The shell coloration is translucent white with transverse brown lines.

There is no operculum. The large foot has lateral parapodia (fleshy winglike flaps). The large body cannot be fully retracted into its shell. The sensory mechanisms are well-developed. (Wikipedia)

Size

Synonyms

Distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

Its distribution is circumglobal in tropical waters - the Red Sea, South Africa, West Africa, Arabian Sea, the Maldives, the Philippines to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Canary Islands, Brazil, and the Lusitanic area of Europe.

This species lives in shallow water, crawling and burrowing into the sand. (Wikipedia)

Behaviour

The egg mass is gathered on the mantle before being attached to the sand by a mucous thread. (Wikipedia)

Diet

It feeds on polychaete worms of the family Cirratulidae, mussels and slugs.

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