Sydaphera spengleriana

Sydaphera spengleriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Sydaphera
Species: S. spengleriana
Binomial name
Sydaphera spengleriana
(Deshayes, 1830)
Synonyms[1]

Cancellaria spengleriana Deshayes, 1830
Cancellaria tritonis Sowerby, 1832

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Sydaphera spengleriana, the Spengler's Nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

Shell of Sydaphera spengleriana can reach a size of 40–70 millimetres (1.6–2.8 in).[2]

Distribution

This species is widespread from Indonesia to Japan. [2][3]

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