Well, it turns out there is a common name for the gnarly marine snail featured in my last post. It’s called a sea elephant. So I stand corrected. There is a common name for Carinaria japonica, not necessarily one that makes any sense, but a common name all the same. Revealing the common name is… [read more]

There is a whole class of ocean animals that I haven’t even touched upon yet, well actually there are probably a many classes of animals I haven’t touched upon yet, and one of those is the Class Gastropoda (within Phylum Mollusca), which includes sea snails and slugs. Well, this week at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, a… [read more]