These unusual snails are pelagic, shell-less carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda, strong jaws and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.
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These unusual snails are pelagic, shell-less carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda, strong jaws and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.
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