The Basket Shells. Dog Whelks 



Atlantic prefer dead fish to live oysters, so they are a negligible, 

 even though numerous, element in the fauna of the coast. Other 

 mollusks are victims of the dog whelks' patient boring. They 

 are even suspected of cannibalism. Finally, in their decline, 

 small hermit crabs tear them from their shells, and take possession, 

 each making a meal of the dismembered body of its victim. 



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