Janthine

The janthine is a marine Gastéropode which lives at water surface. It does not have the air of a Prédateur, but it is frightening for its pace. Inoffensive for the Man, it is tueuse of Méduse S of which it is nourished of their Tentacule S poisonous and sometimes even of their body (bell).

To float

The janthine really does not swim: it is let “push” by the Vent. To float, it uses bubbles of Mucus (“dribble” of the gastropods).

Means of defense

The janthine has two means of defense:

the Means of defense first is the camouflage: its shell is clear in bottom (to imitate the Lumière Sun) to be protected from the marine animals under the water and sunk in top (to imitate the little of light under water) to escape the marine birds;
the second means of defense: to throw a kind of Colorant if an marine animal locates it in spite of its camouflage;
in spite of that, the janthine finishes sometimes its life because of the forces of the Nature (stranding, for example)…

Young people janthines

When a female janthine lays eggs, it poses them on a heap of Bulle S which it “manufactures”. When the young molluscs hatch, they take a little Air in their float to produce after their own bubbles.

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