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Tiny fig shaped snails, Gibberula ficula

Crispin Middleton

Tiny fig shaped snails, Gibberula ficula (Murdoch & Sutler, 1906), crawling around on this tree-like bryozoan, Cellaria tenuirostris (Busk, 1852) during a night dive at the Middle Arch in the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand.