Cozumel photo theme of the week --- snails and slugs and bottom crawlers with shells

[robint]

Let's see your Cozumel bottom dwellers - snails, slugs, and slimy creatures with shells chugging along on the bottom!

Tulip slug

Netted Olive

Flamingo Tongue

another True Tulip

Painted Elysia ... a shell-less slug (very tiny, you have to look hard to find these!)


Now, let's see some of your slugs!

robin

 

[jlyle]

Are we the only ones who take pictures of mollucs?

Triton's trumpet

True tulip laying eggs

West Indian chank

 

[Mossman]

I don't take pictures of ugly snails, only pretty nudibranchs :cool2:

Another painted elysia:

 

[ColoDale]

I left out the small crabs but here are some photos.


Flamingo tongues

Mantis shrimp with something of a shell (and not necessarily slimy)

Netted Olive on a trek

Painted Elysia

Purple crowned Sea Goddesses with trailing behavior

 

[jlyle]

Flame helmet

Flamingo tongue laying eggs

Fingerprint cyphoma

and a cowrie