Least Whelk

Chauvetia brunnea

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Chauvetiidae

Chauvetia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks. Description The strong shell is turreted and many-whorled. The body whorl is not very large.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Mathijs Zonneveld, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionChauvetia, Wikipedia contributors

Least Whelk

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