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| Description | Time to troop out of Platform B now and head towards Platform A. The Malaysian family with the kind Malay- Chinese lady left ahead of me, while I took a little while packing my 70-300 lens away. As we neared the parking lot at the end of the boardwalk, my hawk-eyed taxi driver-guide pointed to this conical shell down below in the swamp. 'Look, that shell, some people eat them', he said. This is a Telescopium telescopium. This large snail has a tall, conical shell strongly reminiscent of an ice cream cone. T, telescopium is commonly seen in Southeast Asian mangroves, on mud, sometimes in the hundreds covering a large area. It is also called 'Rodong' or 'Berongan' in Malay. The largest of Horn snails, the heavy conical shell measures 8 - 15cm and is actually beautifully marked but the patterns are usually hidden by mud and other encrusting animals as you can see here. The animal is velvety black with a highly extendible proboscis. There is a third eye on its mantle margin, in addition to a pair of eyes at the tentacles. It can stay out of water for long periods of time. Telescopium feeds on detritus and algae from the mud surface at low tide by sucking using its proboscis.This species is gathered for food in Southeast Asia and is often sold in traditional markets. It is steamed and eaten with chili.(Sandakan, Sabah, East Malaysia, Nov.2013) |
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| Author | shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates |
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