Xenophora
Sign in to saveXenophora, commonly called carrier shells, is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier snails or carrier shells. The genus Xenophora is the type genus of the family Xenophoridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyXenophoridae
Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 è un genere di molluschi gasteropodi della famiglia Xenophoridae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,520
- With media
- 375
- Family
- Xenophoridae
- Collections
- UWBM, LACM, USNM, NHMUK, UCMP, PRI
- Recorded in
- Fiji, Mexico, United States, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Japan
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Species
- Extinct species
- Fossil record
- See also
- References
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Xenophora, commonly called carrier shells, is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier snails or carrier shells. The genus Xenophora is the type genus of the family Xenophoridae.
==Etymology== The name Xenophora comes from two ancient Greek words, and means "bearing foreigners", so-called because in most species the snail cements pieces of rock or shells to its own shell at regular intervals as the shell grows.
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