''Bostrycapulus aculeatus'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
in the
family
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Calyptraeidae
The Calyptraeidae are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods.MolluscaBase. Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141 on ...
, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and hat snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in Florida and the Bahamas.
Description
The maximum recorded
shell
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Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
Science Biology
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length is 30 mm.
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 80 m.
References
External links
* http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/collinlab/tree_species/bostrycapulus.html
Calyptraeidae
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Gastropods described in 1791
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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