Diloma samoaense

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Diloma samoaense
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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

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 11 mm.

Distribution

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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