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| Image: liquidguru Cuspivolva tigris |
Tigers are so weird.
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| Image: Bernard DUPONT Tiny! |
They belong to a family of gastropods known as cowry allies or, if you're feeling particularly uncharitable, false cowries. False. Like fakes.
Never call a tiger a fake to its face. It'll be outraged. And outrage takes up a lot of energy so it'll also be hungry. And you're there, right in front of its face.
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| Image: Femorale |
In the case of the Tiger Egg Cowry, the shell is light orange. All those lovely stripes and intense colours come from the mantle, part of the snail's soft body, which stretches up and completely covers the shell.
With these bold patterns you have a good chance of spotting a Tiger Egg Cowry even though they're a mere 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long. It'll be climbing up soft corals and quite possibly munching on coral flesh.
It is a tiger after all.
4 comments:
pretty things!
They certainly are pretty things. At least this is the kind of pretty thing that won't sting you when you mess with it....hopefully ^^
Also, have you ever heard of a water dear?
@TexWisGirl: They sure are!
@Porakiya Draekojin: Yeah, those pretty things that won't inflict surprisingly excruciating pain are out there if you can find them!
Oooo... water deer have been on my list for a while!
@Joseph: Good. I just looked them up myself, and they're quite weird.....well, their mouths are, anyway XD
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