| Triviella ovulata baby's toes | |
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| A live individual of Triviella ovulata, head end towards the right | |
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| Species: | T. ovulata |
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| Triviella ovulata (Lamarck, 1810) | |
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Trivia ovulata(Lamarck, 1811) | |
Triviella ovulata, common name "baby's toes", is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
This snail is known around the South African coast from the Cape Peninsula to Coffee Bay in depths of 8–30 m. This species is endemic to the area. [1]
Triviella ovulata has a plump, round, white to deep pink shell. In life the shell is usually completely covered with the white mantle, which is variably spotted with black. [2] It reaches a maximum size of 40 mm.
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