Please help ID this slug looking thing

wannaheli · Feb 8, 2018

He seems to come out of the rocks at night.

TheAquarian · Feb 8, 2018

That is a stomatilla snail, good to have

skiergd011013 · Feb 8, 2018

Ive seen them too. They always go running when the light turns on.

Setowally · Feb 8, 2018

Well as always all I need to do is check in and y'all already have most of the answers. I saw this and figure it's a good snail. It just seems weird to me that the shell is so tiny compared to his body. I have trochus and the snail that burrow in the sand with the long snout sticking out. (GF calls them elephant snails. ) Is this a baby trochus sanil? It's been a very long time since I've seen a critter in here that I wasn't responsible for putting there.

TheAquarian · Feb 8, 2018

Setowally said:
Well as always all I need to do is check in and y'all already have most of the answers. I saw this and figure it's a good snail. It just seems weird to me that the shell is so tiny compared to his body. I have trochus and the snail that burrow in the sand with the long snout sticking out. (GF calls them elephant snails. ) Is this a baby trochus sanil? It's been a very long time since I've seen a critter in here that I wasn't responsible for putting there.

Top photo is also a stomatilla, lower photo could be but I’m not 100% any other photos of it?
Or you could google stomatillia snails and see if it looks like any of the pics

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 9, 2018

Oh my that’s beautiful.
It’s a type of fleshy limpet. Like stoma and abalone.

#reefsquad

Crabs McJones · Feb 9, 2018

Stomatella looks to be to me

KJ · Feb 9, 2018

Stomatella

Bongo Shrimp · Feb 9, 2018

The animal in the image in the first post is not a Stomatella. It has the wrong shell shape, feelers, and the tissue wraps up onto the shell, which is not a characteristic of Stomatella sp.. I am not an expert at snail IDs, but my closest guess is possibly a species of Berthella.

saltyfilmfolks said:
Oh my that’s beautiful.
It’s a type of fleshy limpet. Like stoma and abalone.

@saltyfilmfolks, Limpets, Stomatella, and Abalone are all found in different taxonomic orders and are pretty much only similar in that they are all Gastropods. Stomatella sp. and Abalone sp. are not Limpets. The snail in the first image does not appear to be a limpet because the shell does not have a hole in it.

Kremis · Feb 9, 2018

1st picture is not a stomatella in my opinion. weird foot and shell is too small

S-t-r-e-t-c-h · Feb 9, 2018

It looks like a limpet but not the more common small ones. If you’ve ever seen a black elephant limpet, there’s a similar species (possibly just a color morph?) that has an orang body. That’s what the op image looks like...

Bongo Shrimp · Feb 9, 2018

S-t-r-e-t-c-h said:
It looks like a limpet but not the more common small ones. If you’ve ever seen a black elephant limpet, there’s a similar species (possibly just a color morph?) that has an orang body. That’s what the op image looks like...

There is no hole in the shell of the snail in the first picture. It's a shell with tissue coming up over it. If there's no hole in the shell, I don't think we can say it's a limpet.

KJ · Feb 9, 2018

wannaheli said:
He seems to come out of the rocks at night.

Fleshy Limpet (lucapina sp.)

KJ · Feb 9, 2018

Setowally said:
Well as always all I need to do is check in and y'all already have most of the answers. I saw this and figure it's a good snail. It just seems weird to me that the shell is so tiny compared to his body. I have trochus and the snail that burrow in the sand with the long snout sticking out. (GF calls them elephant snails. ) Is this a baby trochus sanil? It's been a very long time since I've seen a critter in here that I wasn't responsible for putting there.

Stomatella.