Melongena corona Oddities/Variants

Orange Form

Melongena corona - Pinellas Co., FL - Orange Form

Tampa Bay, Courtney Campbell Causeway, Clearwater, Pinellas Co., Florida, 1982

      Phil Poland recently came across this large (about 100 mm.) specimen in the Florida Keys with two nearly full-sized opercula. While pulling the snail, he thought he had broken its operculum but then discovered that the snail in actuality had two opercula. The photograph below shows the foot with its two very distinct attachment points.

Melongena corona - Freak Specimen

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