This page links to some of the living seashells we have seen and photographed diving in various spots near Anilao, Philippines. Getting living animal photos of shelled gastropods usually requires patience. Disturbed animals tend to retract into their shells and often will not come out for some time. Generally our dive trips to the Philippines are of limited duration, and we will not spend the time to wait for a shell's animal to show itself, so the photos below represent only a fraction of the species we actually see there. Sizes given are all fairly rough estimates; the animals were not collected and accurate measurements were not taken in the field.
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Some of the naticids have variable shells and can be difficult to positively identify. References often show different looking shells under the same names. It is a group that probably could use some DNA comparison. Many of our IDs are tentative.
Most olive shells are quite variable in shell color and are thus often difficult to identify. Most of our IDs are tentative.
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