Left-handed Whelk Jade Turbos The branches have many very

The branches have many very small white polyps that are usually only seen at night when the lights of the aquarium are off

Mushrooms are considered 'phase shift' corals

The fronds may be clustered together in a supercolony formed from one or more individual colonies and extending for several metres (yards) across the seabed

and is usually attached to a small piece of rock

chambered shell is perfectly proportioned mathematically

Left-handed Whelk Jade Turbos The branches have many veryThe Lightning Whelk, Sinistrofulgur sinistrum (Hollister, 1958), is one of the local molluscan celebrities, not only because of its large size, but also thanks to very special features that make this species truly remarkable. For instance, unlike most gastropods, which are right handed, the Lightning Whelk has a left handed shell (shell opening to the right with shell spire pointing up). Abnormally right handed Lightning Whelks are very uncommon, but