Cratena peregrina (travelling thread snail)

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Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Habitat:	Hard bottom
Size:	Up to 5 cm long
Appearance:	Milky white with blue-violet to orange cerata Long, slender antennae; mouth antennae longer and thicker than head antennae
Behaviour	Feeds on hydroid polyps, storing their nettle capsules in their dorsal appendages

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