Chauvetia decorata

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Chauvetia decorata
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Shell of Chauvetia decorata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Chauvetiidae
Genus: Chauvetia
Species:
C. decorata
Binomial name
Chauvetia decorata
Monterosato, 1889

Chauvetia decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Canary Islands.

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