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Large conical shell with wavy lines. Often encrusted with algae.
Ocean creature with a shell that twirls like ice cream :)
Spiral shell varies in size & colour
Very common black snail in the tide pools...
These little fellas were using the shell of black
Spotted at low tide in the Cabrillo Tidal Pools
A native sea snal from the coasts of California
Black shell with an iridescent, abalone like spiral on top.
Lithopoma heliotropium, common names: the Sunburst Star
The remains of a Glossy Turban Carnivorous ...
Small circle, convex on one side, and flat with a spiral pattern on the other.
Modelia granosa is a medium to large species of sea
mm in adults, as measured across the greatest shell dimension. Similar to ...
crabs, especially Pagurus samuelis. In 1971 a new sense organ was discovered ...
Oval chiton 6cm (2.5 inches) long with eight whitish valves and a fuzzy brown ...
pic), the bands may be white. It prefers to live in the shell of the black ...
Medium-sized sea snail with gills and an ...