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Pleuroploca
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Pleuroploca

Pleuroploca is a genus of very large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, which includes the spindle shells, the tulip shells and other allied genera.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Trapezium horse conch

speciesPleuroploca trapezium

Pleuroploca ponderosa

speciesPleuroploca ponderosa

Pleuroploca lyonsi

speciesPleuroploca lyonsi

Pleuroploca purpurea

speciesPleuroploca purpurea

Pleuroploca clava

speciesPleuroploca clava

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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 246748.