Concho Water Snake (Nerodia paucimaculata)
U.S. Status Threatened, Listed 9/03/1986 Description The Concho water snake is a small snake that grows up to 3 feet in length. It has large dark reddish brown bands covering its body.
Conch
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(kngk, knch, kõngk), common name for certain marine gastropod mollusks having a heavy, spiral shell, the whorls of which overlap each other.
Concho Water Snake (Nerodia paucimaculata)
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- Conch shells are made primarily of a mineral called aragonite. Each mineral layer is reinforced by layers of protein, similar to the way a brick wall is reinforced by mortar.
Queen conch (Strombus gigas)
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Conch Shells - Received from ?? in Virginia.
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Conchophylla. - Though concealed within the bivalved shellcover, the mouth-parts are nearly as in the Gymnophylla, but the flexing of the caudal part is in contrast, ...
The conch of the ear, Fig. 1, is of enormous size, extending from the level of the forehead over the eye to the chin, in a semilunar form, of which the posterior curve is 3 inches, ...
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Conch Books 320 pgs.
Roper, CFE; Hochberg, FG 1988 Behavior and systematics of cephalopods from Lizard Island, Australia, based on color and body patterns. Malacologia.
Norman, M., Debelius, H. 2000. Cephalopods - A World Guide, Conchbooks, Germany.
ERDG founder Glenn Gauvry designed a mesh bag for conch traps, to prevent other species from taking off with the bait. This has led to the amount of bait needed being decreased by approximately 50%.
The marine shelled species of gastropod include edible species such as abalone, conches, periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce seashells which are coiled in the adult stage, ...
Branches, sticks, twigs, and many unlikely materials such as rope, bones, conch shells, nylon webbing, and other debris, are used in the nest. The nest is built in large snags, conifers, cliffs, rocky outcrops, and on artificial nesting platforms.
Loggerheads have very strong jaws which allow them to eat hard-shelled prey such as conchs and whelks. They eat a variety of invertebrates including crustaceans, mollusks, sponges, cnidarians, and echinoderms.
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The horse conch (Pleuroploca gigantea) is Florida's official state shell. It is a predator that grabs other snails and inserts its toothed tongue to devour soft flesh.
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Currently, horseshoe crabs, used as bait, support multimillion-dollar conch and American eel fisheries. In Delaware Bay alone, watermen derive 20 - 50% of their total fishing income from conch or eel harvests.
The food available at this critical area has been greatly diminished by the annual killing of millions of horseshoe crabs to provide bait for American eel and, to a lesser extent, conch fisheries on the mid-Atlantic coast, ...
Mollusks have variously modified shells, ranging from the large, whorled shell of the whelk to the thin vestigial plate embedded in the body of a slug. Conchology is the study of mollusk shells. (Conchologists of America)
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Nurse sharks are known to successfully feed on large, heavy shelled marine snails (i.e. conches) by flipping the shell over, exposing the vulnerable apeture. Using their teeth and suction, the shark then extracts the snail from its shell altogether.
The Oncocerids also appear during this time; they are restricted to shallow water and have short conchs which surround the stomach.
They are primarily carnivores, munching jellyfish, conchs, crabs, and even fish, but will eat seaweed and sargassum occasionally.
(Gastropoda) are a highly diverse group of molluscs that include more than 60,000 species and account for about 80 percent of all living molluscs. Members of this group include terrestrial snails and slugs, sea butterflies, canoe shells, conchs, ...
Invertebrates
Diet:
plankton and detritus
Size:
to 1 inch (2.5 cm)
Range:
British Columbia to Baja California
Relatives:
cowry snails, conch snails; Phylum: Mollusca; Family: Calyptraeida ...
Thousands of nesting females crawl ashore each year on the beaches of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The loggerhead is primarily a carnivore. Its diet includes crabs, shrimp, whelks, conches, fish, clams, jellyfish, ...
Local names (from Whitehead, 1993) Menjangan Bawean [Bahasa Java] Rusa bawean [Indonesia] Uncal Bawean [Bahasa Sunda] French Cerf-conchon de l'ile Bawean, Cerf de Bawean (Kurt, 1990; Whitehead, 1993) German Kuhhirsch, Bawean-Schweinshirsch, ...
 See also: Shell, Squid, Diver, Mollusca, Coral
  
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