Urosalpinx cinerea
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Oyster drills are infamous for their diet:
""Next to the starfish, this snail is the worst enemy the oystermen have to contend with. ...Setlling up on a young bivalve, the oyster drill quickly bores a neat round hole through a valve, making expert use of its sandpaperlike radula. Through this perforation the oyster drill isa able to insert its long proboscis and consume the soft parts of the oyster."[1]
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- ^ Abbott, R. Tucker; Violet French Morris (1995). Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Houghton Mifflin Co., 211.
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