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Variable Strombs - Conches
Canarium mutabilis
28.4654, 34.4795
Field Notes
Description:
Mollusc - Gastropod - Sea Snail
"Basal whirl nodulous; spire short, nearly smooth, with a sulcated line parallel with the suture; outer lip above gibbous, the margin straight; inner lip thick, both striated; aperture flesh colour; base truncated."
Habitat:
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Chagos Atoll, the Comores, Djibouti; the East Coast of South Africa; Eritrea; Kenya ; Madagascar; the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique; Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania; the Mediterranean Sea; the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
Notes:
Spotted scattered along the shore - Gulf of Aqaba, south of Dahab
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedFebruary 15, 2012
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