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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Distorsio anus, common name the common distorsio, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Personidae, the Distortio snails.[1]
| Distorsio anus | |
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| Five views of a shell of Distorsio anus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Personidae |
| Genus: | Distorsio |
| Species: | D. anus |
| Binomial name | |
| Distorsio anus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The size of the shell varies between 33 mm and 100 mm.
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This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific (Tanzania, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius)
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