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Lithopoma americanum

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Turbinidae

Lithopoma americanum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. Distribution This marine snail occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles. Description The maximum recorded shell length is 40 mm (1.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 139Mexico · 11United Kingdom · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionLithopoma americanum, Wikipedia contributors

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