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| Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Family Potamididae |
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chut-chut snail Cerithidea obtusa Family Potamididae updated Jan 11 Where seen? This snail with a distinctive shape is often seen in our mangroves, on tree trunks and on the mud near trees. Features: 3-5cm long. Shell squat (not so elongated) with ribs of fine beads. Tip usually broken. Shell opening wide usually with a thick flaring lip. Operculum round and dark. In addition to a pair of eyes on tentacles, the snail has a third eye: called the pallial eye on its mantle margin. Other Malay names include 'Mata merah' which means 'red eyes'. The living snail does indeed have red eyes! As well as a reddish margin around the foot. Sometimes confused with the Black chut-chut (Cerithidea quadrata) and Belitong (Terebralia sulcata). More on how to tell these snails apart. |
 Sungei Buloh, Mar 05 |
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 The animal has red eyes! |
Red chut-chut snails on Singapore shores
 Pulau Ubin, Aug 09 |
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 Pasir Ris Park, Oct 09 |
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 Sungei Buloh, Mar 09  |
 Pulau Ubin, May 09  |
 Kranji Nature Trail, Jan 11  |
 Sungei Buloh Besar, Apr 11 |
 Sungei Buloh Besar, Apr 11 |
 Shells of dead snails washed ashore. Changi, Dec 08 |
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Graham Brash, Singapore. 145 pp.|
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