| Bittium proteum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Genus: | Bittium |
| Species: | B. proteum |
| Binomial name | |
| Bittium proteum (Jousseaume, 1930) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Bittium proteum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae. [1]
The shell size varies between 5 mm and 7 mm
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This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Mediterranean Sea
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