Diloma samoaense | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Genus: | Diloma |
Species: | D. samoaense |
Binomial name | |
Diloma samoaense Schwabe & Barclay, 2003 [1] | |
Diloma Samoaense is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [2] Diloma Samoaense got its name from the Samoan islands where it first originated
The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 11 mm.
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This marine species occurs off Tutuila, the largest and the main island of American Samoa in the archipelago of Samoan Islands.
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