Scaphella junonia
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This article is about the snail. For the Roman colony, see Colonia Junonia. For the genus of butterfly, see Junonia.
Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute,[2] is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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Scaphella junonia | |
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A shell of Scaphella junonia trawled by a shrimp boat off of the SW coast of Florida | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Scaphella |
Species: | S. junonia |
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Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804) | |
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This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic.[1] Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes.
The species is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno.