Latin name: Nucella lapillus
Size: up to 4cm tall
Colour: cream/brown
Habitat: all over rocky shores
Facts:
Size: up to 4cm tall
Colour: cream/brown
Habitat: all over rocky shores
Facts:
- The dog whelk is a carnivorous (meat eating) sea snail
- They use their tongue like a drill to bore through the shell of limpets. They also use an acid saliva to help speed up this process
- It takes up to three days for a dog whelk to bore through a limpet shell
- Once through, they are sick into the limpet, mix the limpet up with their sick into a soup and then turn their tongue into a straw and suck it all up!
- They rest for a few days and then find another limpet and start all over again
