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Canarium mutabilis
Mollusc - Gastropod - Sea Snail "Basal whirl nodulous; spire short, nearly smooth, with a sulcated line parallel with the suture; outer lip above gibbous, the margin straight; inner lip thick, both striated; aperture flesh colour; base truncated."
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Chagos Atoll, the Comores, Djibouti; the East Coast of South Africa; Eritrea; Kenya ; Madagascar; the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique; Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania; the Mediterranean Sea; the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
Spotted scattered along the shore - Gulf of Aqaba, south of Dahab
2 Comments
Thanks, Seema.
Nice collection. Quite common in beaches of Bay of Bengal.