APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

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Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- inside crevice it created 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- shell underside / mouth 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- lateral view 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- lateral view 2

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- head / soft body parts 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- head / eyes 1

Specimen above found on a fishing float washed-up at Watergate Bay, Cornwall. 06.01.16. Specimen found by Tracey Williams who kindly allowed me to photograph it.

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- lateral view 3

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- shell underside / mouth 2

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- lateral view 4

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- shell underside / mouth 3

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- shell underside / mouth 4

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- both juvenile snails 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- crack in marker buoy 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- Man-overboard marker buoy 1

Two juvenile specimens found by author inside a crack on a Man-overboard marker buoy at Gwithian, near Hayle Cornwall. 11.02.16. Specimens were found with marine bivalve molluscs, which included, two Isognomon bicolor and two Brachidontes exustus. Eight Columbus crabs, Planes minutus, were also found on the marker buoy.

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- lateral view 5

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- shell underside / mouth 5

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- mouth 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- mouth 2

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- snails 1

Florida rock snail
Stramonita floridana
- snails 2

Shells above purchased as reference specimens. Specimens were collected intertidally by G.T. Poppe, on Margarita Island, Venezuela, in 1999.

Stramonita floridana, the Florida rock snail, has washed-up four times on American fishing floats around the UK cost in Dec./Jan. 2015/16. One juvenile specimen was found in Kent, four specimens were then found on a float in Dorset, then one in Cornwall, and then two on a single float in Dorset. What specialist beachcombers are finding is the tip of the iceberg. It is not known if the species can survive in the UK, but the have colonized areas of Spain already.

Stramonita floridana, Stramonita haemastoma floridana, Stramonita haemastoma, Thais floridana, Florida rock snail or Florida purple.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.