Coffee Melampus

Melampus coffea

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Family: Ellobiidae

Melampus coffea, commonly known as the coffee bean snail, is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae. Distribution The coffee bean snail is found on both coasts of Florida and throughout the Caribbean. Description The maximum recorded shell length is 23 mm.

Distribution

Coffee Melampus — (c) Austin Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 231Brazil · 32United Kingdom · 15Mexico · 8Netherlands · 7France · 5

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Austin Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMelampus coffea, Wikipedia contributors

Coffee Melampus

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