Malacology
Malacology is the study of mollusks. This includes animals like octopus, snails, slugs, and clams. It is the second largest phylum of animals, making them one of the most successful groups on the planet. There are over 80,000 described species of mollusks with many more left to be discovered. Mullusca is composed of 8 recognized classes including Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, Scaphapoda, Monoplacophorans, the Aplacophorans, Caudofoveata and Solenogastres, and Bivalvia.
White Baby Ear
(Say, 1831)
Sinum perspectivum
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Littorinimorpha
Family:
Naticidae
Image Voucher:
ANSP 222185
Ecological Information
Distribution:
Depth (m):
New Jersey to the Caribbean Sea
0 to 70 meters
Diet:
Carnivore; They eat a variety of bivalves.
Habitat:
Marine; Soft substrates
Misc. Facts
Citations
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sinum perspectivum (Say, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160053 on 2021-06-23
Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (214). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/1.116/j.ecoinf.214.8.5.