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Aporrhais

Aporrhais is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea.

The genus is known from the Triassic to the Recent periods (age range: 205.6 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found all over the world.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pelican's-foot

speciesAporrhais pespelecani

Cormorant's-foot Shell

speciesAporrhais serresiana

Aporrhais senegalensis

speciesAporrhais senegalensis

Aporrhais pesgallinae

speciesAporrhais pesgallinae

Aporrhais elegantissima

speciesAporrhais elegantissima

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Aporrhais in Vlyssis Aldrovandi Philosophi Ac Medici Bononiensis Historiam Naturalem in Gymnasio ibidem olim profitentis De Reliquis Animalibus exanguibus, utpote De Mollibus, De Crustaceis, De Testaceis & De Zoophytis Libri Quatuor Post mortem eius editi

Vlyssis Aldrovandi Philosophi Ac Medici Bononiensis Historiam Naturalem in Gymnasio ibidem olim profitentis De Reliquis Animalibus exanguibus, utpote De Mollibus, De Crustaceis, De Testaceis & De Zoophytis Libri Quatuor Post mortem eius editi

Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1623 · p.126

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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 59409.