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| shelled snails text index | photo index |
| Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda |
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berry snail Assiminea sp. Family Assimineidae updated Jan 11 Where seen? This tiny bright red round snail is commonly seen in groups on the surface of the mud in some of our back mangroves. Features: 0.5-0.8cm. Shell thin, smooth and spherical. Colour bright red, sometimes black. Operculum thin. The body is red too, with tiny eyes on short stumpy stalks. It breathes air through a lung (instead of through gills like most other marine snails). Many members of the Family Assimineidae are adapted to brackish waters. What does it eat? It probably grazes on the algae growing on mangrove mud. |
 Lim Chu Kang, Aug 05 |
 Lim Chu Kang, Jan 04 |
 Pulau Semakau, Dec 08 |
 Underside and operculum. Lim Chu Kang, Aug 05 |
Red berry snails on Singapore shores
 Berlayar Creek, Jan 09 |
 Kranji Nature Trail, Jan 09 |
 Pasir Ris, May 09 |
 Sungei Pandan, Jun 09 |
 Pulau Sudong, Dec 09 |
 Pulau Sudong, Dec 09 |
 Kranji Nature Trail, Dec 10 |
 Kranji Nature Trail, Jan 11 |
 Kranji Nature Trail, Jan 11 |
 Sungei Buloh Besar, Apr 11 |
 Sungei Buloh Besar, Apr 11 |
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Assimineidae recorded for Singapore from Tan Siong Kiat and Henrietta P. M. Woo, 2010 Preliminary Checklist of The Molluscs of Singapore.
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The Nature Society (Singapore), Singapore. 343 pp.|
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