| Trigonostoma scalare | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Trigonostoma scalare | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Trigonostoma |
| Species: | T. scalare |
| Binomial name | |
| Trigonostoma scalare (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Trigonostoma scalare is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [1]
This species attains around a size of 30 mm and large specimens can reach 45 mm.
They have a spiral shaped shell with colours from white to orange.
Sometimes taken in tangle nets, at Bohol
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Shallow to moderate depths in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Northern Australia, and the Indo-West Pacific. [2]