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True Tulip

Fasciolaria tulipa

Classification

Fasciolaria tulipa, common name the true tulip, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae. This fiercely predatory species occupies a wide geographic area within the Western Atlantic and is known, along with the other Fasciolariids, for the superficial resemblance their shells possess to a closed tulip flower. Habitat distribution Source: Fasciolaria tulipa has one of the largest geographic distributions of any western Atlantic Fasciolariid inhabiting the North Carolina coast and further south and west to the Gulf coast of Texas, the West…

Distribution

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United States of America · 704Mexico · 99Cuba · 14United Kingdom · 8France · 7Netherlands · 3