A tubular worm snail has been newly discovered in the Florida Reef. The bright yellow snail is named after “Margaritaville,” a song by the late Jimmy Buffett.
The late singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has an unsuspecting figure to add to his legacy — a newly discovered species of sea snail found in the Florida Reef. Named Cayo margarita as a nod to Buffett’s song “Margaritaville,” the bright yellow specimen is a worm snail, a type of mollusk that sticks to hard surfaces within the coral reef and forms a tubular shell around itself, according to a study published Monday in the journal PeerJ.
What’s more, the worm snail is free-roaming as a juvenile, most likely for a few hours, Bieler said, but then attaches itself to a piece of coral and stays put for the rest of its life. To capture its food — plankton and waste matter — Cayo margarita creates a spiderlike web of mucus as a trap, according to the study. The little snail’s bright color caught researchers’ attention.
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Bright yellow sea snail named 'margarita' in honor of late musician Jimmy BuffettHarry is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) and after graduating started his own blog site 'Marine Madness,' which he continues to run with other ocean enthusiasts. He is also interested in evolution, climate change, robots, space exploration, environmental conservation and anything that's been fossilized. When not at work he can be found watching sci-fi films, playing old Pokemon games or running (probably slower than
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