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Top Shell or Trochus

Trochidae sp.

Photo by pamsai
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Description:

I only found these darker green coloured shells empty, washed up in rock pools close to the beach. They were larger than the ones I saw clinging to the rocks. According to wikipedia "The habitat defines its color. On sheltered shores it has a lighter and uniform color (yellow, brown, orange or olive green). On exposed shores its color is darker and chequered." These ones were a good inch or a little larger in size.

Habitat:

Rocky shoreline along the southern coast of Australia. usually found on rocks, stones, or pilings between high- and low-tide marks;

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