Don’t Even Try to Pronounce It
If this name is too much for you to remember, try referring to it by one of its many other names: the scaly-foot gastropod, the scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano scale. Okay, sure, but what is it? It’s one of the most giant existing gastropods, meaning part of the snail or slug family.
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It adores heat, so it tends to be most commonly found in the Indian Ocean near hydrothermal vents. However, there are only three known locations where they like to gather: one area to the south of Madagascar and two places to the east of Madagascar. They live an incredibly sedentary life. We would, too, if we never had to leave warm water!