Snail id please

[PeterEde]

Baby astrea I'm thinking?

 

[Ron Reefman]

I don't think so, but I'd need better pics to try and ID better.

 

[kevgib67]

@WheatToast

 

[PeterEde]

I don't think so, but I'd need better pics to try and ID better.

I'll try side shot if when it's in a good spot

 

[PeterEde]

Got it out
Any ideas?
Good or bad?
I haven't seen it on any corals. Just cruises around rock

 

[kjkszpj9]

Got it out
Any ideas?
Good or bad?
I haven't seen it on any corals. Just cruises around rock

some kind of astrea snail, like the ninja star astrea but this one looks cooler, can you take a pic of its trapdoor/operculum that it uses to shield itself when it retracts in its shell.

 

[Tony Thompson]

Drupa ricinus

 

[PeterEde]

Drupa ricinus

Thanks. Never seen one in lfs

 

[PeterEde]

some kind of astrea snail, like the ninja star astrea but this one looks cooler, can you take a pic of its trapdoor/operculum that it uses to shield itself when it retracts in its shell.

Next time I pull it out.

 

[PeterEde]

Drupa ricinus

Rare ot seems

 

[Tony Thompson]

Rare ot seems

Probably predator , not reef safe.

 

[kevgib67]

Got it out
Any ideas?
Good or bad?
I haven't seen it on any corals. Just cruises around rock

I don’t know what it is but I do know it is really cool looking! I hope it is reef safe and that it breeds in your tank like trochus snails so you can send me a bunch.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Yeah, definitely a Drupa species. D. ricinus is a good guess; D. albolabris, and D. morum are other possibilities.

If you can see the underside of the snail clearly, you can differentiate them pretty easily: D. ricinus has an orangish gold ring or spots going around the opening on the bottom, D. albolabris is just white on the bottom, and D. morum has purple on the bottom near (and inside) the opening.

As mentioned, they're predatory (their members of the "Rapanine Whelk" subfamily Rapaninae) - the abstract of the link below explains their diets if you don't want to read the whole paper (as a note, D. albolabris has been considered a synonym/subspecies of D. ricinus before, so I'd assume - possibly incorrectly - that the two have similar diets):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227836127_The_food_of_coral-reef_Drupa_Gastropoda

 

[Tony Thompson]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227836127_The_food_of_coral-reef_Drupa_Gastropoda

Thanks for the link, very interesting paper, I was not aware of the specific diets for each species.

Would be very interested to get a positive ID of species. @PeterEde could you get a pic of the underneath ?

 

[PeterEde]

Yeah, definitely a Drupa species. D. ricinus is a good guess; D. albolabris, and D. morum are other possibilities.

If you can see the underside of the snail clearly, you can differentiate them pretty easily: D. ricinus has an orangish gold ring or spots going around the opening on the bottom, D. albolabris is just white on the bottom, and D. morum has purple on the bottom near (and inside) the opening.

As mentioned, they're predatory (their members of the "Rapanine Whelk" subfamily Rapaninae) - the abstract of the link below explains their diets if you don't want to read the whole paper (as a note, D. albolabris has been considered a synonym/subspecies of D. ricinus before, so I'd assume - possibly incorrectly - that the two have similar diets):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227836127_The_food_of_coral-reef_Drupa_Gastropoda

Thanks for that. Seems like a good snail if eating bristle worms

 

[PeterEde]

Thanks for the link, very interesting paper, I was not aware of the specific diets for each species.

Would be very interested to get a positive ID of species. @PeterEde could you get a pic of the underneath ?

If I can find it again.