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Charonia lampas

Classification

Charonia lampas, common name the pink lady, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Charoniidae. Distribution This marine species has a wide distribution: the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verdes), the Atlantic Ocean (off the African coasts), the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean (off Madagascar, the East coast of South Africa). Description The maximum recorded shell length is 390 mm.

Distribution

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