Neverita delessertiana
| Neverita delessertiana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Neverita |
| Species: | N. delessertiana |
| Binomial name | |
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Neverita delessertiana (Récluz, 1843) |
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Neverita delessertiana is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
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.
This species is found in the United States in East Florida, West Florida, the Florida Keys, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. [1]
The maximum recorded shell length is 67.5 mm.
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.
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