Clandestine triton

Cymatium succinctum (formerly C. clandestina) is a shell with unique outer covering of thin tissues, and provides effective camouflage. This one also had a small individual of the same species either hitching a ride in the protective leaves of the tissues or perhaps was a small male, who like a few other mollusks, stays attached to the female

Posted 22 October 2010

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