Description
The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.
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| Cantrainea peloritana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
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| Subfamily: | Colloniinae |
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| Species: | C. peloritana |
| Binomial name | |
| Cantrainea peloritana (Cantraine, 1835) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Turbo peloritanus Cantraine, 1835 | |
Cantrainea peloritana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae. [1]
The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.
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This marine species occurs in the Bay of Biscayne and in the Mediterranean Sea.
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