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Acteon candens
Acteon candens, common name Rehder's baby bubble, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae. This species is similar to Acteon punctostriatus.
From the article Acteon candens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 10 mm. Despite looking similar to Acteon punctostriatus, this snail is slightly larger, more solid, more glossy white, less conspictuous with the basal striation well marked but is posteriorly becoming more obscure generally not reaching the upper insertion of the lip. A few pale caramel colored bands may appear on the early whorl of the shell. It is opaque milk-white and has light orange suffusions on the body whorl. It doesn't have spiral grooves from the other ½ of the body whorl. Compared to Rictaxis punctostriatus, A. candens is more thicker-shelled than R. punctostriatus.
Range & habitat
This marine species occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina; in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 253740.