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  2. Sea snail - Wikipedia

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    A species of sea snail in its natural habitat: two individuals of the wentletrap Epidendrium billeeanum with a mass of egg capsules in situ on their food source, a red cup coral. A sea snail Euthria cornea laying eggs. Sea snails are slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone.

  3. Ranellidae - Wikipedia

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    The Tritons are principally equatorial in their geographical distribution, and belong more especially to the Asiatic fauna. Those with the siphonal canal very much produced are obtained from deep water. The cancellated forms are from sand, in deep water; and those covered with an epidermis are chiefly from sandy mud, in from six to thirty fathoms.

  4. Littorinidae - Wikipedia

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    The Littorinidae are a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide. [ 3 ] Names

  5. Snails as food - Wikipedia

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    Typical of Equatorial Guinea is a giant sea snail called bilolá (Persististrombus latus), eaten stewed or sautéed, which in Cape Verde is known as búzio cabra, and is grilled on skewers. And is known as Igbin amongst the Yoruba of western Nigeria Ghana snail

  6. Eocypraeidae - Wikipedia

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    Eocypraeidae is a small family of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies. [1]The family Eocypraeidae consists mainly of fossil species, except for two species: Sphaerocypraea incomparabilis Briano, 1993 (regarded as valid) and an as yet undescribed species found in the southern Atlantic.

  7. Buccinidae - Wikipedia

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    The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The family includes more than 1500 species.

  8. Peraclidae - Wikipedia

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    Peraclidae is a family of pelagic sea snails or "sea butterflies", marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cymbulioidea. [2] This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was originally called Procymbuliidae Tesch, 1913 and then called Peraclididae by Wenz in 1938. [2]

  9. Conus erythraeensis - Wikipedia

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    Conus erythraeensis, common name the Red Sea cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [2] Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

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