Lunatia montagui

Unspotted moon snail ( Lunatia montagui )

The unspotted moon snail or unspotted navel worm ( Lunatia montagui ) is a snail from the family of moon snails that feed on mollusks. She lives in the North Sea, in the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Features

The roundish shell of Lunatia montagui reaching in adult snails with 4-5 whorls usually to 9 mm, sometimes up to 14 mm in length and width, has a fairly low thread with tiered whorls and incised suture, between the outer lip and the body dealing a notch formed. From the partially occluded umbilicus a pit via the inner lip on the casing mouth. The surface is yellowish to reddish with a narrow white band below the seam and without any further housing drawing.

The animal is creamy white, the rear edge of Propodiums brown. The big foot covered during active animal head and a portion of the housing. The Propodium serves the plowing of sandy subsoil.

Dissemination

The unspotted moon snail also occurs in the Baltic Sea on the north-eastern Atlantic, the North Sea to Norway and the Mediterranean beyond.

Habitat

Lunatia montagui lives on sand and mud bottoms at depths of 15 to 200 meters, mostly below 30 meters depth.

Nutrition

Like other moon snails feed on Lunatia montagui of mussels and snails that are searched by digging with his foot in the sand. The prey is includes with the foot and drilled with the radula a hole in the shell.