Hi. I just noticed that in some of the shells of eaten blue leg hermit crabs are little holes, and also on the show on TV "Amazing Octopus" it said that they use their radula to drill "access" holes into prey items. Now here is my question. When I went to florida two weeks ago, on the beach (east coast of florida, touches gulf of mexico) there are millions of clam shell halves, and a large amount of them have little holes drilled in the side. Is this all the work of octopuses, or are there other animals with radula, like super carnivorous snails or something, that also make these holes?
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cephalopoder
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Yes there are snails that feed by drilling. A great web site to check out is http://www.manandmollusc.net
Lots of good info there. I am find of cone snails myself.
Bimacs like to drill. I have a whole collection of shells drilled by my last bimac. Very cool to see because they will drill in the same point ever time. Usually over the abductor muscle. They will use the drill technique if they can't just power pull them apart.It takes them hours and hours to drill sometimes depending on the clams size.
Lots of good info there. I am find of cone snails myself.
Bimacs like to drill. I have a whole collection of shells drilled by my last bimac. Very cool to see because they will drill in the same point ever time. Usually over the abductor muscle. They will use the drill technique if they can't just power pull them apart.It takes them hours and hours to drill sometimes depending on the clams size.
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