Monodonta nebulosa | |
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Monodonta nebulosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Genus: | Monodonta |
Species: | M. nebulosa |
Binomial name | |
Monodonta nebulosa (Forsskal in Niebuhr, 1775) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Monodonta nebulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]
The shell size varies between 15 mm and 22 mm, the body volume is 1.46 cm^3, and the wet body mass is 2.55 grams. [2] The species is a grazer, and eats mostly on low growing organisms, for example: grasses, forbs or algae. [3]
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This species is distributed around the Red Sea and the Eastern Indian Ocean.
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