Can anyone name what these creatures are

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i know one is a snail, but what type of snail?

The purple one, I have no clue. Looks like a rock, but it is very much alive and moves.

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Hi, Byerlyjb - and welcome aboard!

The snail might be one of the Cerith group - some of them have that sort of look . . .

The other almost looks like a limpet to me - if that limpet were covered with cyanobacteria, or red coralline algae. They've got that sort of fringe under the rim of their shells, and are basically very snail-like in most respects. Most of them will scrape algae from your rock, and to do that, they've got teeth made from one of the hardest substances known to science!

~Bruce, not a hitchhiker pro . . .
 

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