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Stomatia
Sign in to saveStomatia, common name the keeled wide mouths, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyTrochidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 99
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Trochidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, AM, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka
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Stomatia, common name the keeled wide mouths, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
==Description== The spiral shell is oblong or depressed orbicular. The spire is prominent but short. The surface is tubercled or keeled. The whorls show a series of short folds below the suture. The aperture is either oblong or transversely oval, and longer than wide or the reverse. The interior of the shell is nacreous. There is no operculum.
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