Crepidula depressa
Depressed Slippersnail
A flattened snail that stacks in groups on shells or rocks, filtering tiny food particles from the water.
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Common Atlantic Marginella
Small-invertebrate predator and scavenger
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Depressed Slippersnail
Filter-feeding plankton consumer
Common Atlantic Marginella was observed consuming juvenile Depressed Slippersnails in the Seagrass Meadow before the Marginella population was removed.
Observation 82 documents a Common Atlantic Marginella extending its tube-like mouth to consume several baby Depressed Slippersnails in the Seagrass Meadow; observation 50 provides broader context that Marginella had been observed eating other snails on multiple occasions.