The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda...
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inner shell layer include marine gastropods such as the Haliotidae, the Trochidae and the Turbinidae. Nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of aragonite...
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Herpetopoma (redirect from Herpetopoma (Trochidae))
Herpetopoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae. In the past, this genus was often treated as a subgenus of...
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Family Lepetidae Superfamily Trochacea Family Calliostomatidae Family Trochidae Family Stomatellidae Family Cyclostrematidae Family Turbinidae Family...
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Cittarium pica, also known as the magpie or West Indian top shell, family Trochidae. In Japan, whelks (ツブ, 螺, tsubu) are frequently used in sashimi and sushi...
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they can consume it. Some marine snails such as abalone and top snails, Trochidae, have numerous small tentacles around the edge of the mantle. These are...
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features of the black turban snail Tegula funebralis (Prosobranchia: Trochidae)". Marine Biology. 31 (2): 181–192. Bibcode:1975MarBi..31..181F. doi:10...
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species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 7 mm...
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Gibbula denizi (category Trochidae stubs)
denizi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains 3 mm. The shell is typically...
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species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top shells. The size of an adult shell of Clanculus puniceus varies...
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calcareous operculum readily distinguishing them from the somewhat similar Trochidae or top snails, which have a corneous operculum. This strong operculum...
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chlorites is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 6 mm...
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Gibbula buchi (category Trochidae stubs)
buchi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It is only known as a fossil from the Late Middle Miocene...
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Gibbula podolica (category Trochidae stubs)
podolica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. This species is only known as a fossil from the Middle...
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Mother of pearl from many seashells including species in the family Trochidae, Turbinidae, Haliotidae, and various pearly bivalves, has often been used...
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new trochids of the genus Antimargarita (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Trochidae) from the Bellingshausen Sea and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Polar...
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Cratidentium (category Trochidae stubs)
a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top-snails. Species within the genus Cratidentium include: Cratidentium...
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bivalve molluscs, mostly in the more ancient families such as top snails (Trochidae), and pearl oysters (Pteriidae). Like the other calcareous layers of the...
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Lirularia dereimsi (category Trochidae stubs)
dereimsi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae. This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off São Tomé and Príncipe and...
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is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar...
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D.G. (1987). Revision of the Solariellinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 25(2):283-382.. World...
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species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells. The fossil record of this species goes back to the Early...
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confusa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 18 mm...
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D.G. (1987). Revision of the Solariellinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 25(2):283-382. D.G. Herbert...
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Parts of Panama - 306A Geology and description of Tertiary mollusks (Gastropods: Trochidae to Turritellidae) (PDF), USGS, pp. 1–186, retrieved 2019-02-09...
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glabrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The height of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 13 mm...
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Jujubinus rafaemesai (category Trochidae stubs)
rafaemesai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary...
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The marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Phylum: Mollusca According to 2006 survey by De Silva, there are 240...
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such as Tripneustes gratilla, sea cucumbers such as Holothuria scabra, Trochidae and related species such as Rochia nilotica, windowpane oyster, abalone...
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Parts of Panama - 306A Geology and description of Tertiary mollusks (Gastropods: Trochidae to Turritellidae) (PDF), USGS, pp. 1–186, retrieved 2019-02-09...
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