Chinese Name: Cat's Eye Snail Latin Scientific Name: Turbo petholatus: Animal Kingdom: Mollusca: Gastropoda: Primitive Gastropoda? Family: Oncomelania: Oncomelania distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific? Morphological characteristics, distribution of origin, living habits and morphological characteristics The biggest feature of the cat-eye snail is that it has a completely calcareous shell, which is as round as a cat's eye and as bright as dark green. The shell is thick and shiny, and the whole shell is smooth except for a few shallow lines. The spiral tower is high, the shell top is blunt, and the suture line is shallow. All spiral layers are convex, but the body layer is slightly concave near the suture line. The mouth of the shell is round and the edge of the outer lip is sharp. There is no umbilical hole, except that the mouth edge of the shell is yellow or yellow-green, and the shell surface is rich in color and complex in pattern. Common dark brown background with dark black stripes, mixed with white spots and stripes; There are also green and yellow ones without patterns. The center of the skin flap is blue-green, which is often called "cat's eye".
Distribution of origin is often distributed in tropical Indo-Pacific. There are also Xigui Island, Kenting, Green Island and other places. The current quantity is medium. Living habits They are all herbivorous shellfish, living on rocks and eating seaweed on rocks. Habitat in coral reefs and rocks 5 cm deep.