Archive for the 'Univalves' Category
Great question since they both look alike for the most part…both grow in a coiled shaped shell and both have one main muscle that is used as a foot.
Here it is…Whelks are carnivores and conchs (properly pronounced – conk) are herbivores.
That doesn’t help though when you aren’t watching it eat…but, typically…whelks live in cooler temperate [...]
What I think you are referring to is the trail of a moon snail, or sometimes called a sand snail. This univalve animal has a cinnamon bun swirled shell. The shell is extremely thick to protect itself from the ocean and other animals that may try to eat it.
If you try to pick it up [...]
The strand of half dollar sized pods is an egg case. Actually each pod has about twenty tiny animals in each pod.
The tiny animal that will grow up from this egg case is the knobbed whelk. This is basically a northeast version of a conch (pronounced conk). If you hold the tiny discs up to [...]
