Need an ID from the snail folks please

[mamagoose45]

We found this guy in the rockwork as we were tearing a tank down today and weren't sure what he was. It doesn't look like any of the snails we have in the tank currently to the best of our identifications. The shape of the shell is what threw us off the most. Any ideas??

 

[pagojoe]

It's a columbellid, or Dove Snail. Most people don't find them to be any problem, although a couple of people have complained that certain species (in different genera from yours) appeared to be eating their zoanthids. I'm pretty sure yours is a variation of Pyrene punctata.

http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_3133.html

Cheers,



Don

 

[mamagoose45]

Thanks Don! I actually joked when we found it in the tank that I should PM you, that I bet you'd know what it was.