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| Litiopa melanostoma sea snail (Rang, 1829), juvenile shell, originally from Puerto Rico | |
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| Species: | L. melanostoma |
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| Litiopa melanostoma (Rang, 1829) | |
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Litiopa melanostoma, common name the brown Sargassum shell, is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Litiopidae. [1]
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and off the Azores; in the North Atlantic Ocean, off Newfoundland.
Litiopa melanostoma (Sargassum Snail) has been found to have a maximum recorded shell length of 6 mm. [2]
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 805 m. [2] The snail is known to live on floating beds of Sargassum.
Litiopidae, common name litiopids, is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
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