Need invert ID
- Thread starter jahmic
- Start date
This is the closest match I could find...just want to make sure as I honestly can't see him that well without a flashlight and the camera's zoom.
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/black_stomatella.html
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/black_stomatella.html
I had to look again to make sure...that second picture did make it seem like it has a radial shell.
The shell looks more fingernail shaped, almost like half of a mussel shell. It does have a "bulge" toward the front on one side, but after pulling up a few photos online, the structure does look consistent with a stomatella.
I've only caught him grazing on algae; I'll pull him out of the tank next time I see him and try to get a better photo.
The shell looks more fingernail shaped, almost like half of a mussel shell. It does have a "bulge" toward the front on one side, but after pulling up a few photos online, the structure does look consistent with a stomatella.
I've only caught him grazing on algae; I'll pull him out of the tank next time I see him and try to get a better photo.
Hmmm, it didn't appear to be a bivalve by the way it moved around. At first I thought it was some type of slug or flatworm until I got the light out and could actually see it's shell..looks more like a gastropod (slug) with a thing shell just behind its head. It also had tentacles/feelers sticking out of the sides of the shell in addition to the pair at the head, which you can sort of see in the first pic.
I should've been less lazy last night and just pulled it out of the tank to confirm an ID...he was in a precarious spot below a birdsnest frag...and right above my duncan. Pretty sure he would've ended up being duncan food if I tried yanking him off the rock yesterday.
I should've been less lazy last night and just pulled it out of the tank to confirm an ID...he was in a precarious spot below a birdsnest frag...and right above my duncan. Pretty sure he would've ended up being duncan food if I tried yanking him off the rock yesterday.
Caught him today with my forceps...definitely a stomatella. I was about to take a pic while holding him in the tank...but my grip slipped of his shell. Apparently he didn't like when the forceps hit his tail...because it let go if it like a gecko!
Felt so bad...but he's crawling around eating, and my duncan took advantage of a free snack.
Felt so bad...but he's crawling around eating, and my duncan took advantage of a free snack.