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Lobatus gigas
Photo take at -50 ft on a coral reef this poor guy was upside down trying to turn around, so i give a hand and place it in the sandy bottom. Beautiful pinks-yellow colors on the inside. is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family of true conchs the Strombidae.
The queen conch is herbivorous and lives in seagrass beds, although the exact habitat varies during the different stages of its development. This species is one of the largest mollusks native to the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic, from Bermuda to Brazil, reaching up to 35.2 cm in shell length. wikipedia.
This is and endanger species:
Spotted on May 9, 2012
Submitted on May 9, 2012
4 Comments
I agree Maria :)
Thanks Luis :)
This made me think immediately of ET for some reason!
Good spotting!