What the heck is this?? Nassarias without his shell?

[crestier18]

I found this guy cruising my glass and I thought maybe it was my nassarius but it lost its shell? Last thing that was added was a nassarius and possum wrasse on February 16th. It has two black eyes, some feelers around its face, and a small hard shell on its back.

[mitten_reef]

Stomalata (spell?) snail. They’re good hitchhikers 

[crestier18]

1 minute ago, mitten_reef said:

Stomalata (spell?) snail. They’re good hitchhikers 

Perfect thanks so much!! I will put him back:)

[banasophia]

What?! Wow!! How did you designate mitten’s answer as the solution like that? 

[Tired]

The OP of threads in certain sections now has a clickable thing saying "mark as solution" under all posts made to that thread.

 

FWIW, a snail's internal organs are all in its shell. If its shell is badly broken, or removed outright, it'll die. This is indeed a stomatella, which naturally has only that little shell, like how slugs naturally have a tiny shell or none at all.

[crestier18]

On 2/28/2023 at 3:04 AM, banasophia said:

What?! Wow!! How did you designate mitten’s answer as the solution like that? 

Yeah it just had a button and I clicked it. I thought it was pretty neat too!

12 hours ago, Tired said:

The OP of threads in certain sections now has a clickable thing saying "mark as solution" under all posts made to that thread.

 

FWIW, a snail's internal organs are all in its shell. If its shell is badly broken, or removed outright, it'll die. This is indeed a stomatella, which naturally has only that little shell, like how slugs naturally have a tiny shell or none at all.

Ahh I see, thank you! I probably should've known that haha