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Perotrochus lucaya

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Pleurotomarioidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Pleurotomariidae

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Perotrochus lucaya, common name the Lucayan slit shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.

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Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas at depths between 275 m and 427 m.

References

Perotrochus lucaya Wikipedia