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The sea snail, is the shell, meat and operculum of the mollusks wrinkled red snail and pectinate spiny bone snail of the family of bone snails of the order Narrow Tongue, its shell is large and thick, the outside of the shell is rough, it is yellow or brown, and the inside of the shell is smooth, it is red or grayish-yellow, with a wide shell mouth, long ovate, and a soft body, and the head has a pair of tentacles on the oral surface of the anterior ventral surface of the head, and there are one pair of small black eyes on each of them, and the foot is wide, and it is grayish-black.

The sea snail is produced in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian and other places in China, the northern part of Honshu, Japan, to Hokkaido, the Sea of Okhotsk in the vast sea area is also distributed, living in the shallow sea area, accustomed to slowly crawling, like to eat echinoderms and some plankton, like to be in the nighttime activities, the sea snail 2 years up to sexual maturity. Spawning period of about May to August, the eggs are laid in the chitinous narrow egg bag, each egg bag contains hundreds to thousands of eggs, the life of the conch in about three years.

Habits

Like other animals, mollusks such as the sea snail have adapted to the ever-changing environment, from the rocks washed by seawater day and night to the murky, muddy, deep seabed, a variety of forms of habitat have their own special mollusc groups, the tide affects the characteristics of mollusks growing in the seashore and the distribution of molluscs, where they live The tides influence the characteristics and distribution of molluscs growing on the seashore, as do the characteristics of the geological surfaces on which they live, although the food provided by abundant sunlight is more important.

Molluscs are best suited to the tropics, which is why the variety of sea shells in this region is breathtaking. Coral is home to brightly colored taro snails, snails, and whirlpool snails, and in mangroves, oysters reside on roots, stinging snails like to climb leaves, and crab snails quietly crawl on mudflats. The sandy beaches are a haven for many bivalves and burrowing gastropods, such as the jade snail.