Onustus indicus
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Onustus indicus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.[1]
| Onustus indicus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Xenophoridae |
| Genus: | Onustus |
| Species: | O. indicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Description
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Distribution
Onustus indicus is distributed in the tropical Indian Ocean (excluding Arabian Sea), the central Indo-Pacific and the westernmost Pacific (Hong Kong to southern Indonesia) as well as in northern tropical-subtropical eastern and western Australia. It can be found between 4 and 150 m.[2]
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