Incredible new snail discovered that eats the tubes of deep sea worms (!!)
[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall.
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
