Neptunea hedychra

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Neptunea hedychra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species:
N. hedychra
Binomial name
Neptunea hedychra
Fraussen & Terryn, 2007 [1]

Neptunea hedychra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [2]

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Description

Neptunea hedychra has a conical spiral shell. It has light colouration and can have tan bands running horizontally along the snail shell.

Distribution

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