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Onustus
Sign in to saveOnustus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Onustus is referenced by 9 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Animalia and ocean.
It is catalogued under topics including Gastropod genera without authority reference and Xenophoridae.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Heather crab spider
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyXenophoridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 43
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Xenophoridae
- Collections
- NHMUK, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF, MNHN, FMNH, AM
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, Grenada, France, United States, Brunei, Australia, China, Nouvelle-Caledonie
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Xenophoridae
- Image
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.337163 - Onustus exutus (Reeve, 1842) - Xenophoridae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Onustus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.
==Description== Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 80–160 mm; height of shell 42–100 mm), thin-shelled, with wide peripheral flange, simple or weakly digitate, porcellanous ventrally. Umbilicus narrow to wide, sometimes plugged with callus. Foreign objects attached to periphery on few to all whorls, usually small and inconspicuous, leaving most of the shell surface exposed.
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