Strombus urceus
| Canarium urceus | |
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| Five views of a shell of Canarium urceus | |
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| Five views of a different form of Canarium urceus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Canarium |
| Species: | C. urceus |
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Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Canarium urceus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
There are two subspecies :
The adult shell size varies between 20 mm and 70 mm.
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and Mozambique and in the western part of the Pacific Ocean along the New Hebrides.
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