Leafy+Hornmouth

**Phyla**: Mollusca

**Class**: Gastropoda

**Scientific Name**: Ceratastoma foliatum

**Location**: Sitka (Alaska) to San Diego

**Size**: **Length**: 3.5 inches/8.5 cm **Width**: 2.5 inches

**Habitat**: Found on rocky places near barnacles and bivalves. They avoid sand and mud.

**Living Requirements**: They use their tooth to bore into the shells of their prey.

**Life Cycle**: Predatory, feeding on barnacles and bivalves.

**Male and Female differences**: Female lays around 40 eggs with approximately 50 eggs per egg.

**Interesting Facts**: They love to live on the lowest part of the reefs. It has three snail-like folds on it's body.

**Human Impact**: The resent oil spill we had has caused them to move to relocate which causes them to not have the food source they would normally have.

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