puppet margarite

Margarites pupillus

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Margaritidae

Margarites pupillus, common name the puppet margarite or the little margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae, the turban snails. Description The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 20 mm. The solid shell has a conical shape and is narrowly umbilicated.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 294Canada · 125

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMargarites pupillus, Wikipedia contributors

puppet margarite

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