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fromThe Mercury News
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Meet the 'distinctive' moon snail lurking along the California coast

Moon snails in La Jolla are large, distinctive predators that burrow, use a rasping tongue to drill prey shells, and produce pottery-like egg cases.
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Meet the distinctive' moon snail lurking along the California coast

They have a very thick round shell. They are distinctive and look like a full moon. The rest of the animal is fleshyhas a huge muscular foot and can propel itself to glide along the sea floor. While hunting on the seafloor, she added, It has a special structure on the front that acts like a snow plow. But the moon snail is a sand plow, so you'll see it push sand out of the way and sniff out chemical cues from their food.
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