Bluish Top Shell

Diloma nigerrimum

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Trochidae

The bluish top shell (Diloma nigerrimum) is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod, in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The height of the shell is 24 mm, its diameter 26 mm. The solid, black, imperforate shell is depressed and has a globose shape.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 1

Sources and credits

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Bluish Top Shell

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