Identify this alien life form

[SeymourDuncan]

I am scared. Luckily I caught it. What is this thing?!?!?!

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Craziest snail I've ever seen

 

[turbo21]

AWesome looking snail, but have no idea what he is

 

[SeymourDuncan]

He is really cool. He was found on a leather probably eating it.

 

[skinz78]

I'm guessing a conch maybe a Flamingo's Tongue?

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Good? Bad? Ain't ugly.

 

[J.B.]

Looks like it may be a Stomatella snail of some sort...kinda cool looking too! If that is indeed what it is, they are known to be harmless in our systems.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

 

[fishman1069]

Thats cool looking! Check chucksaddiction.com to see if you can id it

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[Alex27]

That resembles a cone snail, what ever it is be careful while you ID it.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

It's a species of Cowrie. As to which one, I cannot say.

These guys could likely help you-- Identification Please | www.cowries.info

 

[Mstansbery]

Its a dendronepthya cowrie. A parasite to the Carnation coral. "Egg Cowrie" (Margovula marginata)

http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_4715.shtml

 

[Russellaqua]

It looks like a Flamingo Tongue to me.

Flamingo tongue snail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems like they eat gorgonians. I'm not sure it'd survive without a constant supply of gorgonians to eat, but they stay quite small unlike many other snails.

 

[Russellaqua]

Its a dendronepthya cowrie. A parasite to the Carnation coral. "Egg Cowrie" (Margovula marginata)

Margovula marginata

Yep. I'm gonna change my answer to this.

 

[Steviereefs]

Just be carefull, it might have a very poisonous sting.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Awesome! Glad I got it. I have a purple sea whip! Maybe I'll feed him a frag lol

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Ok. This has been a very interesting observation. It's red spots as spikes are not actually apart of its shell! It is actually its own flesh tht wraps around it I am so amazed at it. I just can't think of what to do with it

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

That is one cool snail.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

I ended up placing him in my algae scrubber to live with or be eaten by the gorilla crab who buries himself in the sand. I'm not sure where the snail cowrie Chinese egg shell what ever thingy is but it is far away from my corals. He has to go through the scrubbers overflow, then the sump baffles and 2nd small waterfall scrubber and to the return pump 4 ft away then up 17 ft of tubing and then and only then will he be a possible threat. In the meantime he gets all the food from the overflow.

The 10g that is as bright as heaven is the scrubber/ pest tank. Anything that's bigger than the overflow pipe goes in there if It ain't reef safe and I let them battle or if they live together cool. More creepy stuff!

 

[that novice guy]

that so cool a little battle tank but that snail looks awsome tho