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Amaea
Sign in to saveAmaea is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderTerebellida
- FamilyTerebellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 184
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Epitoniidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, IGL-UNAM, UF, SDNHM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Panama
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Epitoniidae
- Image
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.195751 - Amaea splendida (De Boury, 1913) - Epitoniidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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- taxon name
- Amaea
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Amaea
- Commons category
- Amaea
- taxon author citation
- H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
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Encyclopedic overview
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Amaea is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.
Not to be confused with Amaea Malmgren, 1866, replaced junior synonym of Amaeana, Hartman, 1959; family Terebellidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.