Animals Of The Day

Question 1

Scientific name: spondylus americanus

Answer 1

Class: Bivalva
Common name: Atlantic Thorny Oyster
Length: 4 1/2 inch
Lives on rocks up to 460 feet, south east coast of us, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, carribean
IIO: shiny shell was developed to help protect the organisms from predators

Question 2

Scientific name: murex Pecten

Answer 2

Class: Gastropoda
Common name: Venus comb
Animal Size: 3 inches
Live in tropical warm waters, eastern Indian and western pacific oceans 650 deep
IIO: the function of the distinct long thin spines is unknown

Question 3

Scientific name: Cyphoma gibbosum

Answer 3

Class: Gastropoda
Common name: flamingo tongue
Animal size: 1 1/2
Habitat: lives in coral reefs about 50 feet found in the western Atlantic from n. Carolina-Brazil, and Gulf of Mexico
IIO : possess 2 fleshy leopard spotted extensions of its mantle that hides its shell