''Emiliotia immaculata'' is a

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of small sea snail with

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opercula, a

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gastropod

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in the

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Colloniidae Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Emiliotia immaculata'' Ortea, Espinosa & Fernández-Garcés, 2008. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458061 on 2013-02-10

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off

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References

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
Colloniidae Gastropods described in 2008 {{Colloniidae-stub