variable wormsnail

Petaloconchus varians

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Vermetidae

Petaloconchus varians is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. Description The maximum recorded shell length is 200 mm.

Distribution

variable wormsnail — (c) Alison Northup, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alison Northup · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 116Brazil · 4Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Alison Northup, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alison Northup · CC-BY DescriptionPetaloconchus varians, Wikipedia contributors

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