Babysitter Snails and eggs
Neptunea snails sit on their yellow egg casings at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Video Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF;V14
December 12, 2017
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Babysitter Snails
These snails lay eggs in a spiral tower and the adult snail sits on top of the tower waiting for the eggs to hatch. The snails were all clustered together along a cable route SUM1W2 at Southern Hydrate Ridge. We did not see the snails at any location other than here. The depth at this location was 776 m. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI//CSSF; ROPOS Dive 1758; V14
November 16, 2017