- The charm of catching the sea lies in the unknown-
If you're new to the beach, you'll probably be just like me, attracted by the beautiful shells on the beach.
A variety of shells have been created by nature's "magic" to create a variety of shapes and lines, which are amazing and shocking: the sea is a magical creator.
What we often call "shellfish" is a generic term for mollusks. It includes the polyplates of the order Stone Turtle; the species of snails and sea slugs of the gastropods; the horned shells of the Order of the Diggers; the oysters, scallops, cockles, mussels, various clams and clams of the order Bivalves; and the nautilus, squid, octopus, and squid of the cephalopods.
Today, I mainly want to share with you some of the gastropod shellfish I photographed at the beach, which is what we often call snails. They are mostly creeping shellfish with distinct heads, well-developed gastropods and hard spiral-shaped shells that allow them to crawl freely on rocks, sand or mudflats. Some species have a mouth cap, which is also known as a stubble. When the tide recedes, they indent their bodies into the shell and close the lid to keep them hydrated. At the same time, you can also protect yourself from foreign enemies.
Now, please come with me to the seaside of Xiazhangquan and see the "artists" who use their souls to create beautiful shells. High-energy picture warning ahead...
They all wear a bucket-like shell, a shape that allows the sea to glide over its sloping silhouette without washing them away. The larger the wave, the tighter it will cling to the rock.
The coast snail, which lives on the reef in the intertidal high tide zone. They are small and drought-tolerant and heat-tolerant in the intertidal zone. The upper temperature tolerance of tower nodules and nodule snails can reach 60°C.
The snails are light-repellent, dorsal and have a strong water storage capacity, are drought tolerant, and often prefer to climb into the dark corners of reef crevices above the high tide line, feeding mainly on seaweed.
Lychee snails, which we often eat bitter snails, inhabit the seabed or reef near the rocks in the middle and lower intertidal zone, and prefer to live in clusters. It is a natural enemy of barnacles, oysters and some bivalve shellfish. It can make holes in hard oyster and barnacles shells, and then suck out the delicious and juicy oyster meat with the tongue.
The rusty concave snail mainly lives in the rock walls and stone crevices of the low tide zone, and its shell is marked like rust, and the snail is as its name suggests. It is said that its shell can be used in medicine, and in Chinese medicine there is a saying of "sea cassia".
The snail is also a ferocious carnivorous snail that preys on bivalves of molluscs such as clams and mussels. When preying, the snail burrows into the wet sand, digs out the prey, and then hugs the prey tightly with its strong feet. They can secrete a liquid that is applied to the shell of their prey, softening a small area, and then using its tongue to drill a perfect round hole in the softened area. We saw small round holes in the sand of some double-hulled shellfish, most of which were holes drilled by jade snails.
If you can see its shell in the intertidal zone, it is like winning the lottery. It mainly lives in the subtidal zone with a water depth of more than 20 meters. The English name of this species is collectively known as wentletrap, that is, spiral spiral snail, which comes from the medieval Dutch word wendeltrappe, which refers to the spiral staircase. Due to its rarity and rarity, its shells are expensive and are known as "precious spiral snails". Its caste name scalare comes from the Latin scalae, which also means stair or ladder.
I am Twitter, a heavy sea lover, wandering in the intertidal zone of Xiazhang Spring. Just want to seriously document the beautiful creatures on the edge of the ocean.
