Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Xenophoridae | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Xenophoroidea Rank Genus | |
Similar Xenophoridae, Xenophora conchyliophora, Xenophora crispa, Xenophora pallidula | ||
Heather spider thomisus onustus capturing a fly
Onustus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.
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Thomisus onustus
Description
Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 80-160 mm; height of shell 42-100 mm), thin-shelled, with wide peripheral flange, simple or weakly digitate, porcellanous ventrally. Umbilicus narrow to wide, sometimes plugged with callus. Foreign objects attached to periphery on few to all whorls, usually small and inconspicuous, leaving most of the shell surface exposed.
Species
Species within the genus Onustus include:
References
Onustus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA