These snails are known for their distinctive patterns. The shell, however, is simply plain white. The colors that you see are actually a fleshy mantle it wraps around its shell, and the white shell is exposed only when either a predator is near or the snail has died.
You know when they are near because they leave a trail of dead coral behind them (they instantly kill coral).
They live in the Western Atlantic, largely in the Caribbean.
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