Honorable Mention: Cowrie Eggs and Rainbow
Photography by Elle Linetsky, undergraduate student,
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
The Thrush Cowrie (Naria turdus) is a marine gastropod native to the Indian Ocean which has recently been spreading throughout the Caribbean. It was first discovered in 无码视频 just two years ago in 2022. Since then, this non-native species has rapidly multiplied in South 无码视频's waters and very little is known about its potential impacts. I have been observing the Thrush Cowrie population in the Southern Indian River Lagoon to understand its ecology here in 无码视频. I photographed a female Thrush Cowrie incubating eggs in an empty oyster shell in the mangroves of the Indian River Lagoon, Jupiter Island.