Common Name: California Bubble Snail
Scientific Name: Bulla gouldiana
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cephalaspidea, Bullidae
Diet: Small bivalves, snails
Habitat: Mud flats, eelgrass
Range: Pacific Coast from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico, as well as Ecuador
Identification: Brown speckled shell, with yellow body that is speckled with white, two tentacles
Reproduction: Yellow noodle-like egg clusters, laid in summer months, Hermaphrodite (has both female and male reproductive organs)
Behavior: Most activity performed at night, detection of light allows for their circadian clock to recognize day and night.
Predators: Navanax inermis
Citations:Johnson and Snook, 1927.Roberts, M., and G. Block. 1983.Spinella, Aldo, et al. 1993.