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Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.

Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.
Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.
Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.
Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.
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Whalen, Kristen
Orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, eating Blareum asbestinum.
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05/09/2008
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 47, No. 1, Pg. 14:
An orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, munches its way up one of its favorite meals, a purple gorgonian with brown grass-like polyps named Biareum asbestinum, known locally as "dead man's fingers" because of its knobby, branched appearance.
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An orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, munches its way up one of its favorite meals, a purple gorgonian with brown grass-like polyps named Biareum asbestinum, known locally as "dead man's fingers" because of its knobby, branched appearance. This photo--taken at 15 feet depth at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas--is the subject of a recent paper on the PLoS One Web site.
Photo by Kristen Whalen
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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