Colonial – an association of animals that live together.
Native Range – area where a plant or animal naturally occurs.
Plankton – small and microscopic organisms floating in the sea.
Fun Facts
Unlike other snails, slipper snails cannot move. They attach to something (usually a rock or another slipper snail) and spend their entire life there.
Start out as plankton and are not boys or girls until they attach to something.
Once they attach to something they become a boy.
Once another slipper shell attaches to them, that slipper shell becomes a boy and they become a girl. This continues so that in their colony there are always boys and girls so they can reproduce.
Slipper shells eat plankton, so may end up eating slipper shell babies (larvae).
