Onustus indicus

Onustus indicus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.^[1]

Onustus indicus
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]
Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791 Xenophora wagneri Philippi, 1855 Xenophorus helvaceus Philippi, 1852 Xenophora indica (Gmelin, 1791)

Description

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]