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| Species: | D. corrodens |
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| Dendropoma corrodens (d’Orbigny, 1841) | |
Dendropoma corrodens is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells. [1]
Found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. [1]
The shell of this cemented species is usually not straight but coiled in one loose and irregular coil, however, the maximum recorded shell length is 10 mm. [2]
The minimum recorded depth is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 0 m. [2]
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