Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Naticidae Scientific name Neverita delessertiana | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Naticoidea Genus Neverita Rank Species | |
Similar Neverita duplicata, Neverita, Sinum maculatum, Naticarius canrena, Polinices hepaticus | ||
Neverita delessertiana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
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N. delessertiana was long considered to be merely a form of the much more common and much more widely distributed species Neverita duplicata. In 2006 a paper was published which made it clear that Neverita delessertiana is a different species than N. duplicata.
Distribution
This species is found in the United States in East Florida, West Florida, the Florida Keys, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. [1]
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 67.5 mm.
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.
References
Neverita delessertiana Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA