Gibbula corallioides

Gibbula corallioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Gibbula
Species: G. corallioides
Binomial name
Gibbula corallioides
Locard, 1898

Gibbula corallioides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

It is similar to Gibbula magus and has often been considered in the past a synonym of this species. But it is somewhat smaller and the color variations are different.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Archipelago.

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