Description
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| Cacozeliana icarus | |
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| Species: | C. icarus |
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| Cacozeliana icarus (Bayle, 1880) | |
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Bittium icarus(Bayle, 1880) Contents | |
Cacozeliana icarus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae. [1]
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