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		<title>Moon Snail &#8216;live&#8217; at Altona Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope&#8230; it&#8217;s not the latest indy music hip-hop crew strutting their stuff on the summer stage. Shells of Polinices sordidus aka Moon or Sand Snail and their sausage-shaped egg masses, have been commonly recorded in Baykeeper shoreline surveys around the Bay. But this  Polinices at Altona beach, is the first live one found so far. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Nope&#8230; it&#8217;s not the latest indy music hip-hop crew strutting their stuff on the summer stage. </strong> <strong>Shells of <strong><em>Polinices sordidus </em>aka Moon or Sand Snail </strong>and their sausage-shaped egg masses, have been commonly recorded in Baykeeper shoreline surveys around the Bay. <strong>But this  <em>Polinices</em> at Altona beach, </strong>is the first live one found so far.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_668" class="wp-caption aligncemter" style="width: 505px"><img class="size-full wp-image-668" title="sand snail altona" src="http://www.bay-keeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sand-snail-altona1.JPG" alt="Sand Snail on the move at Altona" width="495" height="330" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sand Snail on the move at Altona</p></div>
<p><strong>These carnivorous critters  spend much of their time just below the surface of the seabed; and drill holes through  shells of other molluscs to eat them.  This one was keen to disappear into the safety of the sand, using its &#8216;stomach foot&#8217; to dig itself in.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_669" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 506px"><img class="size-full wp-image-669" title="sand snail submerging" src="http://www.bay-keeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sand-snail-submerging.JPG" alt="Now you see it... soon you won't!" width="496" height="320" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Now you see it... soon you won&#39;t!</p></div>
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