Bumpy Green Snail ID

[vetteguy53081]

OK. I still believe you had two snails. It is impossible for a snail to loose its shell without dying. Maybe it was a cat snail and still has seven lives left!

Huge maybe after 3+ decades in hobby, it is known that snails' shells are part of their body. Every time I clean glass, I look and its the same single snail in there . An empty shell signifies dead snails normally

 

[thatsruff]

White-lipped Drupe, Sistrum albolabris

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FYI, from this description, "feeds on worms and mollusks..."

Snail on snail crime... I don't think this guy will make it to my DT.

 

[mtfish]

That is what I was thinking. It is grouped with the murex snails, which are predators.

 

[AC1211]

It looks very cool though.

 

[thatsruff]

It looks very cool though.

It really is a pretty cool snail. It lives in my sump along with a giant trochus that it has no chance of eating.

I added a bunch of invasive zig-zag periwinkles recently, it was crazy to watch it chase them down and eat them.

 

[BloopFish]

Darn I wish I saw this thread much earlier. The ID is spot on, it is a white-lipped drupe ( Drupa ricinus alolabris ). The other most common drupe in shallow waters in Hawai is the Mulberry drupe, which you clearly do not have.

They are very very very common in shallow waters and the tide zone of Hawaii. The description Keoki Stender has is accurate... as you have witnessed. Definitely not reef safe, as the majority of drupes are mollusc eaters or coral eaters or crustcaean eaters... some have been reported to eat fish larvae. I have no clue if the size difference between the drupe and the trochus will stop it or not.

Probably one of many things I never bothered to keep in Hawaii that I always saw. Some drupes actually leave a small hole on the shell of snails when they feed upon them and you'll find many shells on the beach that have holes that look like they were placed there for necklaces, and the dyes the romans made from these snails were high end luxury products. Very interesting creatures.

 

[thatsruff]

Darn I wish I saw this thread much earlier. The ID is spot on, it is a white-lipped drupe ( Drupa ricinus alolabris ). The other most common drupe in shallow waters in Hawai is the Mulberry drupe, which you clearly do not have.

They are very very very common in shallow waters and the tide zone of Hawaii. The description Keoki Stender has is accurate... as you have witnessed. Definitely not reef safe, as the majority of drupes are mollusc eaters or coral eaters or crustcaean eaters... some have been reported to eat fish larvae. I have no clue if the size difference between the drupe and the trochus will stop it or not.

Probably one of many things I never bothered to keep in Hawaii that I always saw. Some drupes actually leave a small hole on the shell of snails when they feed upon them and you'll find many shells on the beach that have holes that look like they were placed there for necklaces, and the dyes the romans made from these snails were high end luxury products. Very interesting creatures.

Cool! Thanks for info, very interesting! I am glad that I kept it, I don't mind throwing it a few snails down there once in a while, it is a pretty neat one. I will be very impressed if it manages to take down this trochus, which is like three times its size.