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Sea Life & Seaweed

Sea life from the Northern Atlantic Ocean. 50 degree F salt water species. Gulf of Maine Inc. supplies sea life, beach plants, and aquarium substrates from Maine, collected by hand.

Aquarium substrates

Arthropods

Bony fishes

Brachiopods

Bryozoa

Cartilaginous fishes

Cnidaria

Echinoderms

Gulf of Maine assortments

Macroalgae

Molluscs

Plankton

Saltwater plants

Sponges

Tunicates

Worms

Ten-ridged Whelk (Neptunea decemcostata)

Ten-ridged Whelk (Neptunea decemcostata)

from $50.00

Common name: ten-ridged whelk    

Scientific name: Neptunea decemcostata

Locations: found at low water on spring tides or deep water

Seasonality:  available year round

Colors:  white shells with brown ridges

Size:  1" - 3"

Collected:  by hand or whelk pot

Quantity:  sold by the each

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Can you count ten ridges?  The snail has not fully retracted into its shell so you can see its hard operculum which serves as the 'door' to its hard exterior.

Can you count ten ridges?  The snail has not fully retracted into its shell so you can see its hard operculum which serves as the 'door' to its hard exterior.

Tidepool Tim says,  "Ridged whelks are quite common in lobster traps as they are attracted to the fish bait.  We get them in our sampling dredges as well.  In the springtime, they seem to migrate above the low tide line and in March and April they are caught mid-way up the beach and eaten by seagulls.  The gulls carry them high in the air above a pile of rocks and then drop the snail down to its death to be shattered upon impact and allow them a tasty meal.  If the gull misses, he just repeats the airlift/drop until success.  Their egg masses are similar to the waved whelk.  These guys have the perfect little antenna and a proboscis they use to scavenge along the sea-floor looking for dead crabs, clams, fish, or even birds. They too are recycling scavengers that keep the benthic food chain cycling.”

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Northern Red Chiton (Tonicella rubra)

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White Dorid (Acanthodoris muricata)

from $60.00
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Northern Moon Snail (Lunatia heros)

from $55.00
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Stimpson's Whelk (Colus stimpsoni)

from $55.00
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Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus)

from $40.00