Poole, Karen E.
Scaphella
Sign in to saveScaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyVolutidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 340
- With media
- 40
- Family
- Volutidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, UF, PRI, YPM
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, United States
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Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
==Distribution== This is a tropical genus occurring in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
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