Sea snail

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Live sea snail, species Nataea, photographed in situ

Sea snail is a common term for marine gastropods (gastropods that live in the sea). It is not a formal term, just a term in common use.

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Charonia, the shell of a sea snail called Triton's trumpet

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A species of sea snail in its natural habitat: two wentletraps

Sea Snail Media

• Euthria cornea in deposizione.jpg

  A sea snail Euthria cornea laying eggs

• The shell of Syrinx aruanus can be up to 91 cm long.

• A 50-second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium stercusmuscaram) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico.

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  A hermit crab occupying a shell of Acanthina punctulata has been disturbed, and has retracted into the shell, using its claws to bar the entrance in the same way the snail used its operculum.