| Neptunea contraria | |
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| Shell of Neptunea contraria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Neptunea |
| Species: | N. contraria |
| Binomial name | |
| Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Neptunea contraria is a left-handed species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [1]
The length of the shell attains 100.9 mm.
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This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily
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