Nerita Picea

Black Nerite

Pipipi
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Photographer: Chela

Location: Kaaawa

Date: May 2003
Species
Description Habitat Trophic Info
Safety Comments Links to Resources

Description: These Nerita Picea's can be found in bunches out of the water in cracks in rocks.  These snails are most active at night time.  They are black with fine spiral lines.  This spcies name means "pitch black".
Habitat: Nerita Picea's are abundant on rocky shores in the splash zone above the waterline.
Range (include invasive, native, endemic): This sea snail is posibly endemic or only found in Hawaii.
Trophic information: The N.Harpa (another kind of snail) is one of the predators of the Nerita Picea.  The way that iteats this snail is by drilling a hole through the thin shell of the Nerita Picea.
Safety: Not poisonus.
Comments: Nerita Picea's were foiund at every single site that we went to that includes dimond Head, Sandy Beach, Ewa Beach, coconut Island, and Kahana Bay.  So this snail is very common in intertidal zones.
Links to Resources: none.
 
 
 
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