{"id":6078,"date":"2010-04-28T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6078"},"modified":"2010-04-28T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:22:28","slug":"moon-snails-active-on-outer-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6078","title":{"rendered":"Moon Snails Active on Outer Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-005-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6082\" title=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 005 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-005-480.jpg\" alt=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 005 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-005-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-005-480-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Outer Cape Cod Moon Snail (Lunatia heros)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As Turtle Journal waded through the submerged tidal flats south of Lieutenant Island on Outer Cape Cod Saturday, April 24th, we encountered several moon snails actively sliding across the sands.\u00c2\u00a0 These specimens marked the first active moon snails we had seen this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-006-fix-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6080\" title=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 006 fix 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-006-fix-480.jpg\" alt=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 006 fix 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-006-fix-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-006-fix-480-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Moon Snail Gliding along Submerge Tidal Flats<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Moon snails\u00c2\u00a0glide across the bottom\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0their &#8220;foot&#8221; as gracefully as\u00c2\u00a0Olympic skaters on ice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hA8m9dnX0vo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hA8m9dnX0vo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Examining Moon Snail (Lunatia heros)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since these specimens were the first we had seen this year, we couldn&#8217;t resist the chance to examine them up close &amp; personal.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was clear from the action of this critter that it wanted to examine\u00c2\u00a0us as much as\u00c2\u00a0we wanted to examine it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-001-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6088\" title=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-001-480-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Moon Snail Retreats Behind Safety of Operculum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">After a while, the moon snail had enough of our intrusion and snapped into safety behind its protective operculum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6086\" title=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"moonsnail 24 Apr 10 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moonsnail-24-Apr-10-002-480-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Exquisite Shell of Cape Cod Moon Snail (Lunatia heros)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outer Cape Cod Moon Snail (Lunatia heros) As Turtle Journal waded through the submerged tidal flats south of Lieutenant Island on Outer Cape Cod Saturday, April 24th, we encountered several moon snails actively sliding across the sands.\u00c2\u00a0 These specimens marked the first active moon snails we had seen this season. 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