Scintilla sp.
This is not nudibranch or sea slug
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: In this family of small bivalves, the animal completely extends beyond the shell valves, the mantle has numerous papillae all over, and it creeps along on its foot like a gastropod. So, if juliids (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) could be described as “bivalved gastropods”, these galeommatids can be described as “gastropodized bivalves”!
| Location: | Malindi, Kenya |
| Photographer: | Angelo de Faveri |
| Camera: | Olympus E-620 › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | August 20, 2010 |
| Viewed: | 305 times |
| Posted: | 2 years ago |
| Updated: | 2 years ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Family: | Galeommatidae |
| Species: | Scintilla sp. |