Article South African Local Marine Snails

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

At the reef expo 2013 I did a talk on local snails. It is covering just the most likely snails you could encounter while rock hopping or pool splashing.

The images are all courtesy of Sea Shells
But its difficult to navigate through thousands of snails found worldwide. Unless you already got a name.

Anyway, I will try and give short descriptions where ever I can.

first a disclaimer.
I am not an marine biologist. Neither a marine expert. Just lucky to have an Aunt in the snail collection hobby that guided me a lot. Thanks.

Strombidae
Herbivore
Algae
Detritus

Very nice snails to get. Be careful, their operculum can cut you.

Strombus aurisdianae
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Strombus decorus
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Strombus gibberulus
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Found a few on rocks and those came out of my substrate, had some shells on my sand that I took out with a net and those were caught as the sand siphoned through .
 
a bump, for the guys going to the coast this December.
 
Hey do you think it would be a good idea to get a gold ring cowrie for a cuc how good are they at cleaning out algae?
 
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