Description
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A distinctive shell, up to 7 cm, with low spire, large body whorl and wide aperture. Spire whorls with deep sutures and moderate-sized tubercles (2-3 rows of tubercles on body whorl, most prominent on shoulder). Colour mottled orange, brown and cream; aperture white. Habitat: deep water on sand. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to G Oman. (Richmond, 1997).
Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
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- bibliographic citation
- Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245. Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56 Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245.
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
