Sea snail shell

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Tonna galea, commonly known as the giant tun, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae (also known as the tun shells). This very large sea snail or tun snail is found in the North Atlantic Ocean as far as the coast of West Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonna_galea, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) Stergios Vasilis, some rights reserved (CC…

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The Ladder Horn Snail, Cerithideopsis scalariformis (Say, 1825), is one of two local members of the family Potamididae. Its shell reaches about one inch in length, and is ornamented by a sculpture of 20–26 slanted, axial ribs per whorl. The ribs stop abruptly at a single, well-defined spiral cord located at the shell suture (line separating two adjacent whorls). The shell lip is typically white with two or three brown bands anteriorly (closer to the shell base). This species inhabits…

The anatomy of a snail is very different from most other animals in the world. Dive into the fascinating world of snails with this in-depth article on snail anatomy!