Exquisite adaptations: Allied cowries

Typical of Allied Cowries, this speciman matches almost exactly both the color and texture of the whip coral it lives on.

The image of this extremely rare and exquisite creature, was taken at Pulau Hantu on January 21, 2005, by Ivan Choong.

Though the Allied Cowrie is known to occur throughout the Indo-Pacific Region, Ruben Clements, a graduate student at the National University of Singapore with a special interest in mollusks, says this is possibly the first record of Hiata spp. in Singapore.

Awesome... Thanks for sharing Ivan!

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