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Posted by Merry on April 12, 2011 at 20:44:46:

The Spirit of America wreck off Santa Cruz Island gave us a beautiful dive on Sunday. Resting in 60 fsw, fairly intact, absolutely bursting with invertebrates, and sporting many fish.

While Phil was off taking WA of the wreck, I found 2 species of snail in the same family, Triviidae.

Paul Kanner (Sheller) kindly identified this one as Erato vitellina, the Appleseed Erato.

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Trivia californiana, the California Trivia or coffeebean has it's mantle partially retracted.

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It must have been snail week, because we saw 5 Calliostoma annulatum, the Blue-Ring Topsnail, on Buchanan's Reef. This one was fairly large.

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But this blue-ring was a mere speck on the lacy bryozoan. I wasn't sure what it was until I saw the photo.

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