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Sea Angel

Clione limacina

GastropodaOpen cold-water ocean column, from near-surface waters to several hundred metres depth, often associated with sea ice margins

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This sea snail eats only one shelled prey

The sea angel Clione limacina hunts almost nothing but shelled pteropods called sea butterflies, extracting them from their shells with a retractable set of hooked buccal cones rather than a radula alone.

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