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A Young Pacific Sideband Snail Goes Exploring. The snail, Monadenia fidelis, was slowly moving along the much larger shell of a marine moon snail, Neverita lewisii. The little Sideband’s shell is about 11mm in diameter. Canada,Geotagged,Monadenia fidelis,Pacific sideband,Summer Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

A Young Pacific Sideband Snail Goes Exploring.

The snail, Monadenia fidelis, was slowly moving along the much larger shell of a marine moon snail, Neverita lewisii. The little Sideband’s shell is about 11mm in diameter.

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  1. View Patomarazul's profile
    Patomarazul
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    Nice close up! It seems to be on top of a much bigger snail? Posted 6 years ago
    1. View gary fast's profile
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      You caught me before I had a chance to upload the next photo.
      A Young Land Snail Explores the Shell of Its Marine Relative. The little (11mm in diameter) Pacific Sideband land snail is travelling on the shell of a Lewis’ moonsnail which is obviously much larger. There are a few more moonsnail shells in the photo. Canada,Geotagged,Monadenia fidelis,Pacific sideband,Summer

      Darn!       Posted 6 years ago
  3. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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    What a funny scene and much respect for the excellent dept of field on this one! Posted 6 years ago
    1. View gary fast's profile
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      Thank you. The depth of field comes from the ability to use a small f stop (f16) because of the flash. I tried focus stacking but even this fellow was moving too fast for that! Posted 6 years ago

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The Pacific sideband

"Monadenia fidelis", common name the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Monadeniidae. This species of snail creates and uses love darts.

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Similar species: Land Snails And Slugs
Species identified by gary fast
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By gary fast

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Uploaded Sep 22, 2018. Captured Sep 22, 2018 09:10 in 315 Whaletown Rd, Whaletown, BC V0P 1Z0, Canada.
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  • E-M5MarkII
  • f/16.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO400
  • 60mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.