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Leucorhynchia caledonica
Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.
From the article Leucorhynchia caledonica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The diameter of the shell is 3 mm. The polished, shining, whitish shell has a subdiscoidal shape and is slightly convex above and below. The spire contains 3 flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. The periphery is carinate. The simple peristome is continuous and is thickened at the base and produced into a tongue-like callus past the umbilicus, leaving a perforation between it and the columellar wall.
Range & habitat
This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, off the Philippines, Indo-Malaysia, New Caledonia and Queensland, Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1213625.