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Euspira heros (northern moonsnail)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern moon snail, scientific name Euspira heros (previously known by the scientific name Lunatia heros), is a species of large sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails (U.S.) or necklace snails (U.K.). This large snail is rather uncommon intertidally, but is much more common subtidally. This species, like all moon snails, feeds voraciously on clams and other snails.
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Prey / Diet

Spisula solidissima (Surf clam)[1]

Predators

Melanitta perspicillata (Surf Scoter)[2]
Squalus acanthias (Common spiny)[2]

External References

Citations

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1Additive interactions between the moon snail Euspira heros and the sea star Asterias forbesi, two predators of the surfclam Spisula solidissima, Eric J. Weissberger, Oecologia (1999) 119:461-466
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0