Ringed Wormsnail

Dendropoma corrodens

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Vermetidae

Dendropoma corrodens is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. Distribution Found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Description The shell of this cemented species is usually not straight but coiled in one loose and irregular coil, however, the maximum recorded shell length is 10 mm.

Distribution

Ringed Wormsnail — (c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Thomas Irvine · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 2United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

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Ringed Wormsnail

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